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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...

ideas and for the principles of Luther’s Reformation to be the foundation of pastors’ education. They opened a second small academy in New York (the first, called Hartwick, had been opened in 1815 in Oneonta, New York) which stressed the teaching of Luther’s Catechisms and traditional Lutheran hymns and liturgy. Some Lutherans in Germany were such strong adherents to the unaltered Augsburg Confession that they fled Germany rather than obey the proposed merger with the Reformed, advocated by the Prussian
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