Date of Award
5-1-1971
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Sacred Theology (STM)
Department
Historical Theology
First Advisor
John Constable
Scripture References in this Resource
Matthew 16:18-19; Matthew 18:17; Luke 4:43; Luke 9:2; Luke 8:1; Matthew 13:11; Revelation 12:10; Luke 1:32b,33; 1 Corinthians 15:24-27; Revelation 12:10; Acts 1:6; Luke 16:16; Luke 22:31,32; John 21:15-17
Abstract
It is the purpose of this study to examine this last point, the Lutheran Church in America's position on the Word and the Confessions, as this is established in its "Confession of Faith" of 1962. Such an examination, however, poses certain difficulties because of the merger and consensus nature of the Lutheran Church in America. The "Confession of Faith" was not drafted in a theological and historical vacuum. Behind it stand several major theological controversies and almost one hundred and fifty years of doctrinal development within the Muhlenberg strain of American Lutheranism, and shorter but no less important developments within the Swedish, Danish and Finnish Lutheran experience in both Europe and America.
Recommended Citation
McCrone, Thomas Roy, "The Word and the Confessions in the Lutheran Church in America Confession of Faith of 1962 - A Historical Approach" (1971). Master of Sacred Theology Thesis. 455.
https://scholar.csl.edu/stm/455
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