J. A. O. Preus II

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J. A. O. Preus II
Born(1920-01-08)January 8, 1920
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS)
Ordained1945
Offices held
President, LCMS (1969-1981)
President, Concordia Theological Seminary (1962-1969)

Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus II (January 8, 1920 – August 13, 1994) was an American

schism
in the LCMS during the early 1970s.

Career

Preus was born on January 8, 1920, in

Minneapolis, Minnesota, graduating in 1945. While in school he married Delpha Mae Holleque on June 12, 1943. He was ordained a pastor and served several congregations in Minnesota. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1951.[1]

In 1958, he moved to Concordia Theological Seminary, then in Springfield, Illinois, as a professor. He became the president of the seminary in 1962.[1]

In 1969, Preus was elected president of the LCMS,

Oliver R. Harms. Preus represented a theologically more conservative wing of the LCMS, and his administration worked to reverse the policies of the more moderate administration preceding his.[citation needed
]

In 1973-74, a battle over teachings at the LCMS's flagship seminary,

St. Louis, resulted in the suspension of the president of the seminary, John Tietjen, and the walkout of most of seminary's professors and students to form a rival seminary known as Concordia Seminary-in-Exile or Seminex. This resulted in a schism in the LCMS, with a small group eventually leaving the synod to form the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in 1976. The AELC served as a catalyst for the merger of the moderate and liberal Lutheran churches in the United States into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1988.[citation needed
]

Preus was named President Emeritus of the LCMS in 1992. He died in Burnsville, Minnesota on August 13, 1994.[1]

Scholarship

Preus was known as a scholar of the

Protestant theologian Martin Chemnitz (1522–1586). He translated many of Chemnitz's works into English, including The Two Natures in Christ (1971), The Lord's Supper (1979), Justification: The Chief Article of Christian Doctrine as Expounded in Loci Theologici (1985), and Loci theologici (1989). His own works include What Stands Between? (1949) and It Is Written (1971). His last work, published in 1994, was a biography of Chemnitz titled The Second Martin: The Life and Theology of Martin Chemnitz.[1]

Relatives

Preus' grandfather

Concordia University in Irvine, California. His cousin David W. Preus served as president/presiding bishop of the American Lutheran Church from 1973 to 1988.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^
    Concordia Historical Institute
    . Retrieved October 26, 2021.
  2. ^ Ylvisaker, Robert (August 29, 2001). "Preus family shaped U.S. Lutheranism". MetroLutheran. Minneapolis. Retrieved April 8, 2018.

External links

  • Preus II, J. A. O. (October 30, 1985), "Martin Chemnitz on the Doctrine of Justification" (PDF), Reformation Lectures, Bethany Lutheran College and Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary, archived from the original on October 8, 2007, retrieved November 18, 2017{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
Religious titles
Preceded by
Oliver Harms
 President
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod

1969–1981 		Succeeded by
Ralph A. Bohlmann
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