I was in my first call, Cleveland, Ohio.
Seminex, Wikipedia
On February 17, 1974, the Board of Control declared that the 45 members of the faculty majority would be "in breach of contract" if they did not announce by noon the next day their intention to return to the classrooms, and that their teaching appointments at the seminary would thus be terminated.
The General Seminary's dean seems to have pushed his rebelling far Left faculty into the same position as Jack Preus did with Tietjen's bunch in 1974. By refusing to do any work they fired themselves.
The General faculty seems to operate from a position of new-found rights while the dean has a previous history as a lawyer at a large law firm. The board supports the dean. The New York Times has feature article on the story.
I doubt whether the dean is very conservative, but he is more conservative than his far Left ex-faculty members. One clue comes from the various denominational radicals crying foul. The Methodists want their newly discovered rights, too, such as the right to disrupt conventions with noisy demonstrations.
WELS' apostate Richard Jungkuntz led the Seminex faction and headed the board of governors for their portable mini-seminary. Note well - Seminex became the first Lutheran seminary to train homosexual pastors, forming an alliance with the Metropolitan Community Churches. Many Northwestern College graduates participated in the Seminex revolt.
General has an enormous endowment and only 70 students enrolled. However, they were already in a financial crisis in 2010. The deluxe campus needs $100 million in maintenance and debt relief.
Most denominations are over-built because their membership is declining and their charges to students are ridiculous. Watch the Lutheran seminaries and colleges continue to close.
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| The faculty is demonizing the dean, Kurt Dunkle. The new sin - he "makes them feel uncomfortable." |
