Date of Award
6-1-1945
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Divinity (B.Div)
Department
Historical Theology
First Advisor
William Polack
Abstract
The history of the Lutheran Church in the region of New York has its beginning contemporaneously with the beginning of the state of New York. Already at the time of the earliest explorations of that territory and the settlement of the first Dutch colony, we find traces of Lutheranism. True, the Lutherans never were a very large force; and, as a body, they had 1ittle to do with the shaping of New York’s development; nevertheless, Lutheranism was present. There was, also a nernber of individuals of, whose secular work the Lutheran Church can well be proud.
In our discussion we shall attempt to follow the Church from its very first signs until the time of Justus Falckner, who died in 1723. Actually, we shall proceed a little further in our story until 1750 where there is a logical stopping place.
Recommended Citation
Helms, Eugene F., "Lutheranism in the Region of New York Until the Time of Falckner" (1945). Bachelor of Divinity. 147.
https://scholar.csl.edu/bdiv/147
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