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The different facets of American religious life are more thoroughly understood with an awareness of the Evangelical heritage that intersects the different denominational boundaries. Since Evangelicalism is not confined to one religious denomination or group, it has associations with a number of American religious movements such as Fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, the Charismatic Movement, and Revivalism. This study, modeled after the popular Greenwood Denominations in America series, analyzes the people, institutions, and the religious culture of modern American Evangelicals. Divided into three sections the book presents a history of American Evangelicalism, discusses themes and issues in modern American Evangelicalism, and provides a biographical dictionary of modern American Evangelical leaders. The combination of critical narrative and reference will appeal to religion scholars and American culture scholars alike. Separate bibliographies unique to the history section and to the themes and issues section provide valuable resources for further research. Equally helpful is the bibliographic material that completes each entry in the biographical dictionary section of the book. The three part organization makes this an accessible research tool, clearly organized for easy cross referencing.
Like other major Protestant denominations in the United States, the 2.6-million-member Luther Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), founded in 1847, has struggled with issues of relevance and identity in society at large. In this book Mary Todd chronicles the history of this struggle for identity in the LCMS, critically examining the central--often contentious--issue of authority in relation to Scripture, ministry, and the role of women in the church. In recounting the history of the denomination, Todd uses the ministry of women as a case study to show how the LCMS has continually redefined its concept of authority in order to maintain its own historic identity. Based on oral histories and solid archival research, Authority Vested not only explores the internal life of a significant denomination but also offers critical insights for other churches seeking to maintain their Christian distinctives in religiously pluralistic America.
Historical events of 20th century American Lutheranism that led to the break in fellowship between the Missouri and Wisconsin synods.
This study examines the history of Article VII, tracing its roots to the early beginnings of the Synod, and its redefinition and expansion in the early twentieth century during a period of Americanization and great growth in the Synod. The book also examines the function of Article VII in the life of the Synod through a study of two theologically moderate congregations in conflict with the Synod during the conservative-moderate debate which raged from 1969 to 1981. The key to Article VII is the meaning of the word "inexpedient". Article VII was born of the socio-spiritual turmoil in the Saxon colonies in Missouri as a result of the deposition of Martin Stephan, the leader of the colonies. Stephan's hierarchical ecclesiology, supported by his autocratic and charismatic leadership, was viewed with suspicion by lay leaders in the colony who advocated a congregational polity in which the laity were given the right and the responsibility to judge doctrine and practice. This polity was codified in the synodical constitution. In the early twentieth century, it became necessary to redefine and reemphasize the Synod's decentralized polity. It is here, in the English translation of the German constitution, that the word "inexpedient" is first used. First Lutheran Church and Pacific Hills Lutheran Church, both of Omaha, Nebraska, each entered into conflict with the Synod when it came to believe that the Synod had become a coercive power which imposed doctrine and practice on the congregation which was contrary to the sense of Article VII.