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...notably unconvincing contribution to the cause of unbelief." The Archbishop of Canterbury was heard to remark at a picnic that the book "has made more hubbub than it is worth"; in that spirit, he successfully prevented debate over it at last month's meeting of the church General Synod...
...small, and if there were contests in such things, he would have been world champion. It all began when he taught a survey course on religious bodies at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and ripened into an obsession when the book house of his own denomination, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, asked him to redo its standard reference work in the field...
Piepkorn suddenly died of a heart attack in 1973 at age 66, leaving behind 2,900 pages of manuscript and a file-crammed study. His friend, Concordia President John Tietjen, undertook to edit the project for publication. Soon Tietjen was ousted in the Missouri Synod's ongoing doctrinal war, and only three years later is the first of a projected seven Piepkorn volumes reaching print. The initial installment of Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada (Harper & Row; 324 pages; $15.95) covers Roman Catholicism, 48 Eastern churches, and 18 groups related...
While Tietjen and his friends work on the remaining volumes, they are operating a "Seminary in Exile" and forming denomination No. 736, a schism from the left of the Missouri Synod known as the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. That is the problem with Piep-korn's goal of listing everyone. The job never ends...
...sickness unto death, but rumors persist that he might resign, possibly on his 80th birthday. No Pope has resigned for centuries, however, and Paul has never indicated that he is considering it. Moreover, he would be highly unlikely to quit on his birthday since that would disrupt the Synod of Bishops that opens Sept. 30, which has been in preparation over the past three years. Paul's moves last week have brought the voting membership of the College of Cardinals up to 119 out of the full 120 permitted. He also named as cardinals...