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Lutherans in Crisis Op (Hardcover)
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Lutherans in Crisis Op (Hardcover)
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The first complete account in English of the American Lutheran
controversy of 1849-1867Tension between a religion's heritage and
its social context forms the everpresent question of group
identity. In the United States, this question has been posed in a
particular way for religious traditions as the tension between
"Americanization"-being assimilated into social and cultural
structures of the new world-and "confessional identity"-seeking to
sustain and understand a religious heritage in light of a new
context and its questions. Lutherans in the mid-nineteenth century
provide one illustration of this social and theological tension.The
first part shows how, in spite of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg's
efforts, early Lutheranism adopted congregational polity,
democratic structures, voluntary membership, and freer liturgical
forms. Then the formation of the General Synod (1820) is traced and
its chief spokespersons and their theological and practical
innovations highlighted. Gustafson locates the movements toward
confessional revival among Lutherans in Germany-many of whom
emigrated to the United States in the 1830s-in reaction to
unification with the Reformed. The final chapters chart the actual
controversy (1849-1867) between the less confessional Lutherans of
the General Synod and the recent, more confessional Lutheran
immigrants."Gustafson shows that Lutherans today can learn a lesson
from the nineteenth-century struggle for Lutheran identity. The
confessional Lutheran part issued a 'call to faithfulness' at a
time when major voices were inviting Lutherans to join the melting
pot of American Protestantism. Lutherans still stand at a
crossroads between Protestantism and Catholicism, caught in the
struggle over their own identity and mission. Lutherans in Crisis
sheds the light of our past on the path of our future. Without this
light we would be completely in the dark."-Carl E. BraatenLutheran
School of TheologyDavid A. Gustafson, who received his PhD from the
Graduate School of Union Institute, served elca parishes in
Wisconsin for most of his career. At the time of his death in 2001,
he was teaching Church History at the University of Saint Thomas in
Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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