The Journal of the Lutheran Historical Conference 2017

 
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Contents of the 2017 edition include:

  •  Four Colonial Swedish Priests and their German Colleagues by Kim-Eric Williams

  • Better a “Live Dog than a Dead Lion.” The Remarkable and Unlikely Life of Manuel Simeon Corley: South Carolina Abolitionist, Unionist, Teetotaler and Scalawag by Susan Wilds McArver

  • Reply to the Church Council of the Norwegian Synod (1868) by C.L. Clausen (Ed. Thomas Jacobson)

  • Prairie Royalty: Auguste von Schwartz (1807-1877) and the Baltic Noblewomen Who Supported the Iowa Synod by Martin J. Lohrmann

  • Landstad in America by Gracia Grindal

  • “Why have we no Lutheran church?”—English Lutheranism in Pioneer California by Richard O. Johnson

  • The Lion of Anacostia (Frederick Douglass) and the Lutheran Pastor (John George Butler) by Philip M. Teigen

  • A Brief History of Black Lutherans in North Carolina (1974) by Robert Moore

  • “Pastor Has Been Arrested!” A Case Study in War Hysteria by Marvin Huggins

  • Out in the West Texas town of El Paso by Luther Oelke

  • New in New Guinea: A Young Missionary writes to Family by Mary Jane Haemig

  • A President in the Parish:  Lyndon B. Johnson and Pastor Rod Maeker of Trinity Lutheran Church, Stonewall, Texas by Russell Vardell

  • Have Lutheran Social Statements Gotten Longer? by Leslie Weber

  • Preserving the Archival Legacy of Frederick K. Wentz by Sheila Joy & Kristin Barnes

  • Conflict-Generating Trends Preceding the Missouri Synod Schism in 1974 by Donn Wilson