Word: tietjen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wearing flowing white ecclesiastical robes, the Rev. John Tietjen, leader of the Missouri Synod's breakaway liberal faction, delivered that bitter eulogy last week from a pulpit set up in an auditorium at the O'Hare Inn near Chicago. It was what his 1,600 listeners wanted to hear. They were members of Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (E.L.I.M.), a dissident group that has been warring openly with the conservative hierarchy of the 2.8 million-member denomination. Tietjen's lament for the church underlined the fact that the Missouri Synod's conservative leadership is now firmly...
Making solemn charges of false teachings, board members of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis last month suspended the school's moderate president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, and sparked an angry walkout of most of the seminary's students and faculty (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week, using the walkout as grounds for dismissal, the seminary board fired 46 members of the faculty and the executive staff, then promptly appointed seven new professors and 33 part-time faculty members who will be on call to teach the remaining students...
...conservatives have long been disturbed by liberal trends at Concordia, which has allowed its professors to inter pret Scripture by the historical-critical method. Using that system, scholars consider the Scriptures in their historical and literary settings, which may suggest that some accounts are myth, others metaphor. Tietjen has forthrightly de fended his faculty against attacks, arguing that God's word was never meant to be judged so factually. Last summer Preus was re-elected overwhelmingly at the Synod convention in New Orleans...
...also given an explicit mandate to clean Concordia's house of doctrinal error, and a new seminary board with a conservative majority was elected. Last week the board "suspended" Tietjen-in effect fired him, pending a long series of hearings. The 20-page list of charges accused the president of, among other things, "holding, defending, allowing and fostering false doctrine," and "rebelling against the Synod...
Scharlemann, who long ago apologized for his own controversial scriptural essays, has helped lead the conservative opposition since Tietjen was elected seminary head in 1969-at least partly, say faculty critics, because Scharlemann himself had wanted...