Word: schism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...split does occur, it is uncertain how many would leave the Missouri Synod. Tietjen predicts that more than 1,500 congregations will depart. Others put the figure much lower, at a maximum of 500 congregations encompassing some 250,000 members. Whatever happens, the moderates themselves reject the word schism...
...just as the schism over the clubhouse funding rages, so goes the debate over the large Fund figure. Some of the newer slate of officers would like to see both the $15,000 endowment and more money from local alumni used for funding scholarships for area students, an area where Philadelphia's Harvard Club lags far behind others, Humenuk says. Philadelphia's alumni are wealthy but they regularly give to their class instead of the local-level scholarships, Randall says not un-approvingly. He claims the Philadelphia alum's give most religiously, especially when the funds are badly needed, regardless...
...husbands and sons have special princely privileges. Unfettered by any constitution or laws determining the royal succession, the members decide who will be the country's King. The princes showed extraordinary prescience a few weeks ago by settling on the succession to Faisal and thereby averting a family schism following the King's death...
Resentments between traditionalists and those who advocate freer scriptural interpretation helped to cause schism a year ago among Southern Presbyterians in the U.S. The Roman Catholic Church is increasingly beset by similar quarrels. Last March, Bishop James Rausch, a progressive who is general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, publicly censured several conservative columnists who had questioned the orthodoxy of some current U.S. Catholic biblical scholarship...
...Evangelist Billy Graham, but the most controversial hard-liner today is the Rev. Jacob A.O. Preus, 54, a Minnesota Governor's son with a Ph.D. in classics. Preus' crackdown as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod led to the seminary walkout and the current threat of church wide schism. His personal view of Genesis includes a global flood in the Noah story and a six-day creation (though he leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam and Eve story and the entire New Testament, including...