ANATOMY OF AN EXPLOSION
In 1974, all but 5 professors and a small handful of students remained on the campus of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. The rest left and formed a seminary in exile which became known as "Seminex". In 1977, Professor Dr. Kurt Marquardt wrote a book for the Concordia Theological Quarterly which detailed events leading up to the walk-out and the walk-out itself. It is a compelling story and when I finish reading the book I will be writing a review here. If you get a chance to read it you may want to have a blog discussion with me on the topic. I think it is worth looking at considering the ramifications Seminex seems to be having on our Synod today.
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Notes and thoughts about my life after seminary, as a Divorced father of two daughters, and other things that I want to write about.
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You may also want to read "Exodus from Concordia - A Report on the 1974 walkout" which was put together by the Board of Control for the Seminary in 1977, and John Tietjen's autobiography "Memoirs in Exile - Confessional Hope and Institutional Conflict" (Augsburg Fortress, 1990)
Tom,
Thanks for the tip, I guess to get an idea of the situation one should read something from both sides of the aisle. At least to be objective about it. I happen to disagree strongly with the Historical Critical approach as I am sure you also do. We must take the scriptures to be spiritually inerrant.
As an added reading, consider Adams book, "Preus of Missouri". It is written from the perspective of Tietjen, about the same time as Marquardt's book.
As folks move about it is always difficult to see the real meaning of their religiuous activity. Read carefully the story in Joshua 22 when the Reubenites, Gadites and the half tribe of Mannaseh built an alternative altar. They were returning across the Jordan after assisting the other tribes to settle Canaan. Their altar was misunderstood by the other tribes who first threatened to destroy them because of it. Only by face to face negotiation did the two sides come to understand the true meaning of the new religious artifact. My point is that we must always look at both sides and ask God to intervene for our peaceful existence.
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