Word: synods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since its biennial convention a year ago, the 2.9 million member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has been on the brink of a civil war between the supporters of its aggressively orthodox president, Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus, 52, and those of Dr. John Tietjen, 44, the moderate president of the denomination's large, influential Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. The 1971 church convention, acting on its theme "Sent to Reconcile," attempted a kind of Missouri Compromise, supporting Preus in his theological investigation of the St. Louis seminary but leaving the moderates in control of the seminary's governing...
Elected Leader. Küng notes in his foreword that he was impelled to write the book because of the mass defection of Catholic priests-some 25,000 during the past eight years. This, and the end of the "third ineffectual bishops' synod since Vatican II," convinced him that it was once again time to nail his theses on the door of the Vatican. Küng admits that he cannot completely clarify the shape of a new Catholic ministry. "It used to be easy to draw a picture of a king," he says. "It took time until...
Athenagoras did not live to see one dream fulfilled-the calling of a great synod embracing all of Orthodoxy, which would have been the first in nearly 1,200 years. The great synod he envisioned would have worked to bring Orthodoxy under one harmonious canopy round the world. It was a fitting vision for a Christian who saw the world as one, and whose life was nothing less than an embrace...
...classic. It cost $425,000, took 2½ years to complete, and drew on a nationwide sample of 4,745 Lutherans between the ages of 15 and 65, representing the three major Lutheran denominations: the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. In all, the lengthy questionnaires answered by the respondents produced some 7,000,000 pieces of information. The four researchers who compiled it all, Lutheran Clergymen-Psychologists Merton P. Strommen, Milo L. Brekke and Ralph C. Underwager and University of Minnesota Sociologist Arthur L. Johnson, contend that the findings...
...Pope-like, to their posts until death. But the previous archbishop, Geoffrey Fisher, resigned in 1961 right after one of his great achievements, the historic visit to Pope John XXIII. Incumbent Archbishop Michael Ramsey, 67, is rumored to be considering a similar move if this week's Anglican Synod approves his dream of a merger with the Methodists in Great Britain. The merger failed once before to achieve the necessary 75% approval, however, and prospects this time look little better...