Word: synods
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...years, the biggest barrier to serious discussions of Lutheran unity has been the independent stand of the doctrinally conservative, fast growing (2,500,000 members) Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Historically wary of cooperating with church groups that do not share its theological views, the Missouri Synod has never joined the National Lutheran Council-the service organization that coordinates such matters as public relations, welfare and mission activities for most of the nation's other Lutheran groups...
...says the Missouri Synod's executive director, Dr. Walter Wolbrecht, "we want to see what church work the several bodies can do together better than they can do separately.'' Last week, at its annual convention in Cleveland, the Missouri Synod adopted a resolution that proposed an international synodical conference "designed to embrace all Lutheran bodies." To succeed its president of the last 27 years, Dr. John Behnken, 78, the synod elected Dr. Oliver Harms, 60, of St. Louis, the church's first vice president for the last three years. Says Lutheran Harms: "We shall continue conversations...
Erigena was judged a heretic by a church synod in 855. and he was murdered, so legend has it, by a group of his outraged disciples, who stabbed him to death with knives and styluses in his church. His major works were formally condemned by Pope Honorius III in 1225. Yet as much as any man, Erigena deserves to be called the father of the Middle Ages. Erigena's own writing attempted to prove that there was an inner unity of true philosophy and true religion-the fundamental principle of medieval scholastic philosophy. "If we were to seek...
Still buoyant and confident of ultimate vindication, Merriam plans to appeal the presbytery's action to the synod of New York State, and, if necessary, to the church's General Assembly as well. His chances of success are small. Thanks to Merriam's outspoken behavior since the ouster, more ministers than ever are convinced that he was the wrong man to handle so sensitive a call as the Broadway church; and they believe that under Presbyterian law they were fully justified in removing him. "Our presbytery," says Dr. Henry Barraclough, a retired Associate Stated Clerk...
Skirting gingerly the question of possible heresy, the assembly ruled that the Synod of New Jersey had exceeded its judicial authority in barring Dr. John Hick from membership in the Presbytery of New Brunswick. A professor of Christian philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary, Hick was voted into membership of the presbytery last year; the synod rejected the election action because Hick had refused to affirm his belief in the virgin birth of Christ. The assembly decided that the synod had erred procedurely in questioning a presbytery's right to choose its own members...