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| Neuhaus was leaving the LCA when we spoke at the Ad Fontes conference. He was startled when I told him I heard his father preach on Easter Sunday. LCA Bishop James Crumley seemed to be talking Neuhaus out of something at Ad Fontes. Neuhaus became a priest soon after. Oh, Neuhaus meant that ad fontes. |
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| Robert L. Wilken taught at Notre Dame when I was there. I had no interest in taking classes from the apostate. He served part-time at the LCMS to ELCA parish pastored by SP Pfotenhauer's grandson - Fritz. Fritz finished his PhD in record time after hiring Wilken. |
1. Richard J. Neuhaus (1990)
2. Robert L. Wilken (1994).........Professor at University of Virginia
3. Leonard Klein (2003)
4. Phillip M. Johnson (2006)
5. Bruce Marshall.....................Professor at St. Olaf
6. David Fagerberg...................Professor at Concordia College, Moorhead
7. Richard Hutter......................Professor at Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
8. Mickey Mattox......................Professor at Marquette University
9. Michael Root (2010)............. Professor at Trinity Lutheran Seminary
10. Russell Saltzman (2016)
11. ELCiC Bishop Robert Jacobson became a priest.
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| Dr. Pelikan attended Bethesda Lutheran Church in New Haven, where I worked, so we saw him every Sunday. LI's godmother earned her doctorate in church history under Pelikan. His godfather graduated first in his class at Yale Medical School and then earned a PhD. We had great coffee hour discussions at Bethesda. |
Joined Orthodox Church
1. Jaroslav Pelikan (1998)........ Professor at Yale University
2. Jay Rochelle........................Professor at Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago. GJ - I think he was LCMS originally, then LCA.
3. David Smith
4. J. Thomas Shelley (2015)
5. John Fenton - LCMS, Paul McCain buddy. McCain had a hissy over Fenton's view of Justification when Brother John left the LCMS. McCain is UOJ! Ironies abound.
6. A WELS pastor joined Eastern Orthodoxy in 2011.
Mass Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine, 2007
Jaroslav Pelikan recently died at the age of 82. He was a famous Lutheran scholar, a distinguished professor at Yale University. He was raised and educated in the LCMS. Late in life he joined the Eastern Orthodox Church. Joining the Church of Rome is called poping, while joining the Eastern Orthodox is called semi-poping.
Pelikan won an award for $500,000. He left it to the Russian Orthodox seminary with which he was associated at death.
Richard John Neuhaus was one of the first celebrity converts to Rome. He wrote the highly entertaining Lutheran Forum Letter, which drove the LCA, then ELCA leaders mad. Neuhaus was educated in the LCMS, the son of a conservative LCMS pastor from Ontario, Canada. I heard his father give an Easter sermon, long ago.
Robert Wilken, a well known Lutheran scholar and friend of Neuhaus, also joined the Church of Rome. Wilken was head of graduate studies in theology at Notre Dame, and is now at the University of Virginia. Wilken was also trained in the LCMS.
Leonard Klein, another editor of Lutheran Forum, presumably a friend of Neuhaus, is being trained as a Roman Catholic priest, despite being married and having served as an LCA/ELCA pastor for decades.
We knew Pelikan from Yale. His young daughter used to ask for the baby, "Wheah's Mahtin?" she would say in her New England accent. I wrote back and forth to Neuhaus when we shared a common loathing for the LCA's apostasy. We met him at the Ad Fontes conference (at or near Leonard Klein's church) in Pennsylvania. Klein and his wife were at that conference. I recall LCA President James Crumley having a very serious discussion with Neuhaus, who joined Rome soon after. Wilken taught at Notre Dame when I was there. These four are only a few of those who have left the Lutheran church to pope or semi-pope. The LCMS Ft. Wayne seminary is known for having graduates who join Eastern Orthodoxy the moment they graduate. St. Louis also produces Eastern Orthodox clergy.
Not all the Popes Trinkets, which heere are brought forth,
Can ballance the Bible for weight, and true worth:
Your Bells, Beads and Crosses, you see will not doo't
Or pull down your scale, with the divell to boot.
