These videos consist of a series of questions answered by Dr. Rast and Dr. Schumacher over the issues that has faced the Lutheran Church since the Reformation.
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51 - How did the Saxons recover from the loss of Martin Stephan?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains the result of the Altenburg Debate and how it solved some problems after the exile of Martin Stephan.
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52 - What happened to lead to the organization of the LCMS?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains how the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod comes into being in the 1840's.
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53 - What other Lutheran synods existed in America in the 19th century?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher gives an overview of the multiple Lutheran Synods that existed in the United States in the last half of the 19th century.
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54 - Was the Missouri Synod the only confessional church in America at the time?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains the different views of the Lutheran Confessions.
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55 - What kinds of issues did English-speaking confessional Lutherans face in America?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains the difficulties English speaking Lutherans had in worship and church life.
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56 - Does the Synodical Conference still exist today?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains what eventually happens to the Synodical Conference.
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57 - What was the predestination controversy?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains the pre-destination and conversion controversy between the Missouri Synod and the Ohio Synod.
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58 - What other ethnic Lutherans came to the United States?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast gives an overview of other no German Lutheran groups in the United States in the 1800's.
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59 - Were Lutherans in America ever able to get along?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast looks at efforts to bring unity among the different Lutheran Synods in the 1900's.
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60 - When did the LCMS become English-speaking?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains how the Missouri Synod shifted from German speaking to English speaking in the first half of the 20th century.
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61 - How did the Missouri Synod grow after its founding?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains the two periods of growth in the Missouri Synod.
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62 - What developments occurred in the LCMS during the first half of the 20th century?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains the things that changed the Missouri Synod into a centralized church body.
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63 - Are the subjects of church and ministry important to the LCMS?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast briefly explores the importance of church and ministry in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
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64 - What happened to the LCMS during the 1970s?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast gives an overview of the Controversy of the early 1970's in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
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65 - What does the Lutheran landscape look like today?
Lawrence Rast and William Schumacher
Dr. Rast and Dr. Schumacher discuss the future of Lutheranism in today’s world.
