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...staff, which administers all church mission activity at home and abroad, follow the spectacular split between the church's Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and "Seminex," the new, more liberal seminary in exile (TIME, March 4). That situation is still confused. Last week the Rev. Martin H. Scharlemann, acting president of Concordia, resigned, suffering from nervous exhaustion. In May, Missouri Synod congregations will have to decide whether to choose new graduates from the rebel Seminex as pastors-though they may face expulsion if they do. Any notable defiance will be a test of Preus's power...
...Concordia board also replaced all four department heads at the seminary, three of them with doctrinaire conservatives loyal to Preus. As acting president and new head of the exegetical (i.e., Bible) department, the board appointed the Rev. Martin H. Scharlemann, 63, an unflappable former military chaplain who is a retired brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Scharlemann has solid academic credentials (two earned doctorates). But his appointment outraged the faculty, who consider him a turncoat: many of the professors had defended him when he was under attack as being too liberal during the 1950s...
...Scharlemann, who long ago apologized for his own controversial scriptural essays, has helped lead the conservative opposition since Tietjen was elected seminary head in 1969-at least partly, say faculty critics, because Scharlemann himself had wanted...
Your Dec. 24 issue under Religion carried a reference to a U.S. Army chaplain who, finding the little Waldensian congregation in Cerignola without a pastor, took charge of it and "for a whole year exercised in that place a brotherly ministry. . . ." The man referred to was Chaplain Martin H. Scharlemann of the 43rd Air Service Group, which had its HQ in that town, and of which the undersigned was the historian...
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