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John W.O. Brenner, "A Six-Foot Ramrod of Lutheran Conservatism": The Right Man for the Right Time for the Wisconsin Synod Among Intersynodical Relations
(2015)
Fellowship issues have always been hard topics to address in a country that likes to compromise. This thesis examines the events that led up to the LCMS/WELS split and how President John W. O. Brenner dealt with those ...
The Lutheran Church Responds to Conflict: The Civil War and Its Issues in Nineteenth Century America
(2015)
The American Civil War had profound effect on those who experienced it. Over 600,000
succumbed to disease and warfare as a young nation struggled to define itself amid the day’s
most pressing questions. Should slavery ...
The Lutherans East of the Marsh: An Historical and Ministerial Evaluation of the Wisconsin Synod Lutherans in Northeastern Dodge County, Wisconsin
(2013)
The purpose of this paper two-fold: The first purpose is to understand the historical circumstances that led to a high concentration of Lutheran congregations being established in northeastern Dodge County, Wisconsin, and ...