ABSTRACT
Sets forth the assessment of a St. Louis newspaper editor and outsider on the theological controversy of the 1970s in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the dismantling of its “moderate” stronghold at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Focuses on “conservative” Synod President J. A. O. Preus, describing his Norwegian Lutheran background and training, his tenure as faculty member and president of the Springfield seminary, synodical presidency, and role in the upheavals at the St. Louis seminary.
