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Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod

a conflict that changed American Christianity

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Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod follows the rise of two Lutheran clergymen Herman Otten and J. A. O. Preus who led different wings of a conservative movement that seized control of a theologically conservative but socially and politically moderate church denomination and drove "moderates" from the church in the 1970s. The schism within what was then one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States ultimately reshaped the landscape of American Lutheranism and fostered the polarization that characterizes today's Lutheran churches. Burkee's story, supported by personal interviews with key players and church archives sealed for over twenty years, is about more than Lutheranism. The remaking of this one Lutheran denomination reflects a broader movement toward theological and political conservatism in American churches a movement that began in the 1970s and culminated in the formation of the "Religious Right." - Publisher.

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Fortress Press
Language
English
Pages
256

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Unchartered Waters
Missouri and the Religious Right
Clarifications
Change and Reaction in the LCMS: 1938-1965
Liberalism Ascendant
Missouri's Heyday
Mission and Money
The Ecumenical Sixties
A Young Conservative Takes Shape
Taking Aim at the Faculty
The Seminary Strikes Back
Big Government in Missouri
Otten Builds a Movement
Tabloid Theology
The Preus Way
Moderates in Control
Civil Rights and the LCMS
The Seminary Challenges Missouri Traditionalism
Countering Christian News
2. Countermovement: 1965-1969
Commie Lies
Baal or God?
1965: Detroit
Anti-intellectual Conservatism
Harms Struggles to Respond
A Gathering Storm
Mainstream Conservatives Organize
The Reactionary Movements Converge
Dalliance with Montgomery
Kookishness
The United Planning Conference
Tietjen Joins the Fray
Right Turn in Denver
3. Power, Politics, and the Purge: 1969-1974
Pressure from the Right
Charges, Mistrust, and Secrecy
Balance, Inc.: Robert Preus Steps Forward
Preus's Plumber
Concordia Seminary: The Noose Tightens
Purging Missouri Missions
Preus's Statement and the Blue Book
Struggling for Conservative Unity
Keeping Otten on the Outside
Jack Moves to the Center
Seminex
4. Genie on the Loose: 1974-1981
After the Battle
The Movement Fractures
Blackmail
Otten and Preus: Open War
Preus vs Preus
Retirement and Vengeance
Conclusion
No Apologies
From Growth to Decline

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-250) and index.

Published in
Minneapolis, Minn.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
284.1/32209045
Library of Congress
BX8061.M7 B87 2011

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xvi, 256, [12] p. of plates
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24903284M
Internet Archive
powerpoliticsmis0000burk
ISBN 10
0800697928
ISBN 13
9780800697921
LCCN
2010044874
OCLC/WorldCat
646121972

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