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A helpful and accessible guide to Lutheranism’s history and central tenets, with numerous photos and illustrations. Small wonder that many are confused about Lutheranism’s historical origins, doctrinal affirmation, and ethical directives. Even Lutherans themselves maintains, Eric Gritsch, a leading authority on the Lutheran tradition are not clear about their identity. Some Lutheran consider...

them settled in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, though some continued on to North Carolina. In 1734, about three hundred of the thirty thousand Austrian Lutherans who had been driven out of Salzburg by the Salzburg bishop established the Ebenezer settlement on the banks of the Savannah River in Georgia. The first Lutherans appeared in New England and Nova Scotia in the 1760s. “White servitude” paved the way to the longed-for better life for many Lutheran immigrants. The majority of German immigrants
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