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...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...
...found in solid objects but in the harmonious order of the objects. Phaedrus called this unobservable order "Quality" and spent years trying to convince his teachers, and later his students, that it was the missing link that would close the subject-object gap and the schism between classic and romantic, between art and technology. Whether it was his method or the intense manner in which he went about his preaching, people thought Phaedrus was going a little crazy. Eventually, he accommodated them...
...threat of schism within the Missouri Synod has intensified. A large group of dissidents (Evangelical Lutherans in Mission) have now officially cast their lot with the strikers, announcing that they will divert their contributions from church headquarters to a new mission board and the seminary in exile. A conciliation board is still at work trying to mend the tattered situation, but the prospects for restoring unity are bleak...