1. Robert David Preus was an American Lutheran pastor, professor, author, and seminary president.
14 Facts About Robert Preus
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Robert Preus found Luther Seminary, which was the seminary of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, to be theologically compromising and indifferent, so he left to attend the newly formed Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Mankato, Minnesota.
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Robert Preus entered the University of Minnesota in 1949, and then the University of Edinburgh, where he completed his first doctorate in theology in 1952.
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Robert Preus served the congregation for three years and then served three congregations near Fosston, Minnesota.
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In 1957, Robert Preus was appointed instructor of systematics and philosophy at Concordia Seminary in St Louis, Missouri.
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Robert Preus' work came at a time when controversies over the inspiration of Scripture were confronting Lutheranism in America, and specifically, in the LCMS at Concordia Seminary.
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Robert Preus refused to teach or use the historical-critical method of Biblical interpretation, a stance reaffirmed and adopted by the LCMS in its New Orleans Convention in 1973.
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In 1969, Robert Preus earned a second doctorate from the University of Strasbourg in France.
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Robert Preus was appointed president of Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Illinois, in 1974.
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Robert Preus served for years on the LCMS Board of Missions and was a board member for Lutheran Bible Translators from 1960 to 1980.
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Robert Preus taught about and fought against the Church Growth movement at Concordia Theological Seminary and throughout Lutheranism and Christianity, although in a seminary publication he once stated that "Concordia Theological Seminary is a church-growth seminary".
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Robert Preus was among leading evangelical theologians who signed the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and further participated in the three summits of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy.
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Robert Preus served as one of the translators of the New International Version of the Bible.
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Robert Preus never regained the presidency, and died in 1995, months before he was scheduled to preach at the chapel at Concordia Theological Seminary.