Word: schism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denominations (2.8 million U.S. members, 300,000 more outside the U.S.). In 1969 conservatives captured its leadership, and last winter nearly 400 moderate students walked out of its major seminary and established a rival seminary in exile (TIME, March 4). Now the Synod may well be facing an outright schism within its ranks, probably after its biennial convention next July...
With his new one-year contract, Robinson will be guiding a team of limited talent in a town traditionally known as the "graveyard of managers." His job will not be made any easier by a barely concealed black-white schism on this year's team. But Star Pitcher Gaylord Perry, who had earlier threatened to leave the club if Robinson took over, joined with other players to say that they would give their new skipper a chance...
...last week's Chicago meeting, E.L.I.M. delegates generally agreed to stay and fight within the church rather than break with it in open schism-at least until conservatives actively move to throw them out. Respected Church Historian Martin Marty-a board member of E.L.I.M.-argued that before that could happen, the detested conservative leadership might simply fall apart, largely because of its inherent divisiveness. "I don't believe the two official seminaries will survive," he says. "They will have to combine. The financial devastation will start showing soon. Careers are gone, families are divided. Any congregation that gets...
...conservatives, of course, take an opposite view, especially in the wake of Concordia's astonishing rebound. Seminex, predicts Church President Preus, "will wither away in a couple of years." Preus dismisses talk of any actual schism. "E.L.I.M. is mainly a clergy movement," he observes. "There will not be any split, primarily because the lay people are not cranked up." Moreover, Preus insists, he is not going to do anything "to stir things up further." With the conservatives' firm grip on the seminaries, "there's no reason for heresy hunts in the parishes...
Accepting all this as a foregone conclusion, Rhodes is examining the special obligations imposed upon him by the crisis: how to save as many Republican Congressmen as possible from defeat in November, and how to avoid party schism. Last week he described the situation as he saw it to his old friend Vice President Gerald Ford. "I thought he ought to know," Rhodes said. "I think he got the message." He telephoned his friend George Bush, the G.O.P. national chairman, to ask: "You got any good news?" Quipped Bush: "Yes, it's 12:17 and nobody's been...