Outline

• General Studies of American Religion, Featuring Lutheranism

• General Studies of American Lutheranism
• Historical Studies: ELCA (and predecessors)
• Historical Studies: ELS (and predecessors)
• Historical Studies: LCMS (and predecessors)
• Historical Studies: WELS (and predecessors)
• Lives and Letters
• Collected Source Documents
• Journals of Church History

General Studies of American Religion, Featuring Lutheranism

• Gjerde, Jon. The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. (Discusses the ways that religious immigrant groups understood freedom in the Midwest.)

• Hart, D. G. The Lost Soul of American Protestantism. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. (Constrasts non-confessional denominations with confessional Lutherans and Presbyterians.)

General Studies of American Lutheranism

• Beck, Walter Herman. Lutheran Elementary Schools in the United States: A History of the Development of Parochial Schools and Synodical Educational Policies and Programs. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1939.

• Bente, Friedrich. American Lutheranism. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1919.
• Dolak, George. A History of the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States of America. Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House 1955.
• Eckstrom, Vance L., Arland J. Hultgren. The Augustana Heritage: Recollections, Perspectives, and Prospects. Chicago: Augustana Heritage Association, 1999.
• Ferm, Vergilius Ture Anselm. The Crisis in American Lutheran Theology: A Study of the Issue Between American Lutheranism and Old Lutheranism. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1927.
• Finck, William John. Lutheran Landmarks and Pioneers in America: A Series of Sketches of Colonial Times. Philadelphia: General Council Publication House, 1917.
• Frendt, E. C. The Struggle for Lutheran Unity and Consolidation in the U.S.A. from the Late 1930s to the Early 1970s. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1980.
• Frost, Naomi E. Golden Visions, Broken Dreams: A Short History of the Lutheran Council in the USA. New York: Lutheran Council in the USA, 1987.
• Gustafson, David A. Lutherans in Crisis: The Question of Identity in the American Republic. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.
• Hansen, Thorvald. Church Divided: Lutheranism Among the Danish. Des Moines: Grand View College, 1992.
• Hauge, Osborn. Lutherans Working Together: A History of the National Lutheran Council, 1918-1943. New York: National Lutheran council, 1945.
• Interpreting Lutheran History: Essays and Reports. Papers delivered at the 17th Meeting of the Lutheran Historical Conference, Ft. Wayne, IN, 1996. St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 1999.
• Jacobs, Henry Eyster. A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States. New York: Charles Scribner’s sons, 1893.
• Johnson, Jeff G. Black Christians: The Untold Lutheran Story. St. Louis: Concordia, 1991.
• Nelson, E. Clifford, ed. The Lutherans in North America. Rev. ed. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.
• Neve, Juergen Ludwig. A History of Lutheranism in America, 1619-1930. Fort Wayne: Concordia Theological Seminary Press, 1979.
• Nyholm, Paul C. The Americanization of the Danish Lutheran Churches in America: A Study in Immigrant History. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963.
• Qualben, Lars Pederson. The Lutheran Church in Colonial America. New York, T. Nelson, 1940.
• Repp, Arthur Christian. Luther's Catechism Comes to America: Theological Effects on the Issues of the Small Catechism Prepared in or for America Prior to 1850. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press; Philadelphia: American Theological Library Association, 1982.
• Roeber, A. G. Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
• Schaeffer, Charles William. Early History of the Lutheran Church in America, from the Settlement of the Swedes on the Delaware, to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia: The Lutheran Book Store, 1868.
• Schalk, Carl. God's Song in a New Land: Lutheran Hymnals in America. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1995.
• Solberg, Richard W. Lutheran Higher Education in North America. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1985.
• Solberg, Richard W. Open Doors: The Story of Lutherans Resettling Refugees. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1992.
• Strommen, Merton P., et al. A Study of Generations: Report of a Two-year Study of 5,000 Lutherans between the Ages of 15-65: Their Beliefs, Values, Attitudes, Behavior. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1972.
• Swihart, Altman K. Luther and the Lutheran Church, 1483-1960. New York: Philosophical Library, 1960.
• Tappert, Theodore Gerhardt. Lutheran Confessional Theology in America, 1840-1880. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.
• Tietjen, John H. Which Way to Lutheran Unity? A History of Efforts to Unite the Lutherans of America. Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1966.
• Wartluft, David J. Eastern Lutheranism and the National Church, Influence and Foil: Essays and Reports. St. Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 2003.
• Weiser, Frederick Sheely. Love's Response: A Story of Lutheran Deaconesses in America. Philadelphia: Board of Publication, United Lutheran Church in America, 1962.
• Wentz, Abdel Ross. A Basic History of Lutheranism in America. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1964.
• Wentz, Abdel Ross. The Lutheran Church in American History. Philadelphia: The United Lutheran Publication House, 1933.

Historical Studies: ELCA (and predecessors)

(See also "Historical Studies: ELS (and predecessors)" for Norwegian-American roots of the ELCA.)

• Manhart, Franklin Pierce. The Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States: History, 1867-1917. Published by the Synod on its Fiftieth Anniversary. Harrisburg: The Telegraph Company, Art department, printers, 1917.
• Schmucker, Samuel Simon. The American Lutheran Church. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
• Trexler, Edgar R. Anatomy of a Merger: People, Dynamics, and Decisions that Shaped the ELCA. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991.
• Wolf, Robert Bruce. History of the Rocky Mountain Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Now a Part of the United Lutheran Church in America. n.p.: The Synod, 1941?.
• United Lutheran Church in America. Lutherans in Colonial Days. Philadelphia: Board of Publication of the United Lutheran Church in America, 1926.

Historical Studies: ELS (and predecessors)

• Aaberg, Theodore. A City Set on a Hill: A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Mankato, MN: Publications Board, Evangelical Lutheran Synod, 1968.

• Anderson, Verlyn Dean. The History and Acculturation of the English Language Hymnals of the Norwegian-American Lutheran Churches. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1972.
• Barnett, Robin Stern. The Beginnings of Western Koshkonong Ev. Lutheran Church: History of the the Western Koshknonong Lutheran Congregation. Soughton, WI: The Congregation, 1991.
• Larson, J. Herbert, and Juul B. Madson. Built on the Rock. Mankato, MN: Lutheran Synod Book Company, 1992. (Commemorative history of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (1918–1993). Contains listings of all pastors, Bethany College professors, and Lutheran elementary teachers to 1993.)
• Lee, Agnes Grevstad. The History of the Western Koshkonong Lutheran Congregation. n.p.: n.p., 1975.
• Lillegard, George O., ed. Faith of Our Fathers, 1853-1953. Mankato, MN: Lutheran Synod Book Company, 1953. Centennial history published as a companion to Grace for Grace.
• Malmin, Ramsus, O. M. Norlie, and O. A. Tingelstad. Who's Who Among Pastors in All the Norwegian Lutheran Synods of America, 1843-1927. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1928.
• Marzolf, Dennis, ed. With Hearts and Lips Forever We Shall in God Rejoice! An Anecdotal History of the Choirs of Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minnesota. Mankato, MN: Bethany Lutheran College, 2002.
• Meyer, Carl S. Pioneers Find Friends. Minneapolis, MN: Lutheran Brotherhood, 1963.
• Nelson, E. Clifford, and Eugene L. Fevold. The Lutheran Church Among Norwegian-Americans: A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1960.
• Nichol, Todd W. Crossings: Norwegian-American Lutheranism as a Transatlantic Tradition. Northfield: Norwegian American Historical Association, 2003.
• Orvick, George M. A History of the Christian Day School in the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. n.p.: n.p., 1990.
• Orvick, George M., ed. Our Great Heritage: A Popular History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. n.p.: (Evangelical Lutheran Synod), (1968).
• Preus, Johan Carl Keyser. The Union Movement and the "Minority," 1917. Minneapolis: J.C.K. Preus, 1958.
• Rohne, J. Magnus. Norwegian American Lutheranism up to 1872. New York: Macmillan, 1926.
• Ylvisaker, S. C., Christian Anderson, and George O. Lillegard, eds. Grace for Grace. Mankato, MN: Lutheran Synod Book Company, 1943.

Historical Studies: LCMS (and predecessors)

• Baepler, Walter A. A Century of Grace: A History of the Missouri Synod, 1847-1947. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1947.

• Dean, Lueking F. Mission in the Making: The Missionary Enterprise among Missouri Synod Lutherans, 1846-1963. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. 1964.
• Forster, Walter O. Zion on the Mississippi: The Settlement of the Saxon Lutherans in Missouri, 1839-1841. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1953. Paperback edition, 1999.
• Graebner, Theodore Conrad. Our Pilgrim Fathers: The Story of the Saxon Emigration of 1838, Retold Mainly in the Words of the Emigrants, and Illustrated From Original Documents Related to the Emigration. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1919.
• Hageman, Gustave Ernest. Sketches from the History of the Church. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1923.
• Kretzmann, Karl. The Atlantic District of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, and its Antecedents. Erie: Press of the Erie printing Company, 1932.
• Meyer, Carl S. A Brief Historical Sketch of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1963.
• Meyer, Carl S. A Log Cabin to Luther: Concordia Seminary during One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years toward a More Excellent Ministry. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1965.
• Northwick, Byron. The Development of the Missouri Synod: The Role of Education in the Preservation and Promotion of Lutheran Orthodoxy, 1839-1872. Ph.D. dissertation, Kansas State University, 1987.
• Polack, William Gustave. The Building of a Great Church: A Brief History of Our Lutheran Church in America. St. Louis: Concordia, 1926.
• Todd, Mary. Authority Vested: A Story of Identity and Change in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Foreword by Martin E. Marty. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2000.
• Schulze, Andrew. Race Against Time: A History of Race Relations in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod from the Perspective of the Author's Involvement, 1920-1970. Valparaiso: Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, 1972.
• Weisheit, Eldon. The Zeal of His House: Five Generations of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod History (1847-1972). St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1973.

Historical Studies: WELS (and predecessors)

• Braun, John A. Together in Christ: A History of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 2000.

• Braun, Mark E. A Tale of Two Synods: Events that Led to the Split between Wisconsin and Missouri. Milwaukee, WI: Northwestern Publishing House, 2003.
• Friedrich, Edward C. The Minnesota District's First Fifty Years. 1968 District Convention Essay. New Ulm: Doctor Martin Luther College, 1968.
• Fredrich, Edwin C. The Wisconsin Synod Lutherans: A History of the Single Synod, Federation, and Merger. Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1992.
• Kiessling, Elmer C. Centennial Memoir: Northwestern College Alumni, 1879-1979. Watertown, WI: Northwestern Alumni Association, 1979.
• Kiessling, Elmer C. A History of the Western Wisconsin District. Watertown, WI: Northwestern College, 1970.
• Koehler, John Philipp. The History of the Wisconsin Synod. Edited by Jordahl, Leigh D. 2d ed. Sauk Rapids, MN: Sentinel Printing (for the Protes’-tant Conference), 1981.
• Kowalke, Erwin E. Centennial Story: Northwestern College, 1865-1965. Watertown, WI: Northwestern College, 1965.

Lives and Letters

• Brinkley, Richard N. Thy Strong Word: the Enduring Legacy of Martin Franzmann. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1993.

• Harstad, Peter T., ed. Sigurd Christian Ylvisaker, 1884-1959. Mankato, MN: Lutheran Synod Book Company, 1984.
• Leaver, Robin A. Come to the Feast: The Original and Translated Hymns of Martin H. Franzmann. St. Louis: MorningStar Music Publishing, 1994.
• McMurdie, Jean McAnlis. Land of the Morning: A Civilian Internee's Poignant Memories of Sunshine and Shadows. Gig Harbor, WA: Red Apple Publishing, 2001.
• McMurdie, William F. Hey, Mac! This Is Serious Business! A Guy Could Get Killed! Gig Harbor, WA: Red Apple Publishing, 2001.
• Stuckwisch, Rick. The Liturgical Theology of Johannes Konrad Wilhelm Loehe: Confessional Lutheran Liturgiologist. Fort Wayne: Concordia Theological Seminary Press, 1994.
• Ylvisaker, Sigurd Christian. Sigurd Christian Ylvisaker's Letters from Leipzig to His Family in Minnesota, 1907-1910. Edited by Martha Ylvisaker Limburg and Barbara Ylvisaker Newsom. Translated by Erling T. Teigen. Mankato, MN: Lutheran Synod Book Company, 2000.

Collected Source Documents

• Jahn, Curtis A., ed. The Wauwatosa Theology. 3 vols. Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1997.

• Koren, Ulrik Vilhelm. Truth Unchanged, Unchanging: Selected Sermons, Addresses and Doctrinal Articles. Translated and edited by the Evangelical Lutheran Synod Translation Committee. Lake Mills, IA: Graphic Publishing Company, Inc., 1978.
• Koren, Ulrik Vilhelm. Why is There No Church Unity Among Norwegian Lutherans in America? Answer to Mr. Ulvestad and to Many Others. Reprint ed. Mankato: Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary, 1981.
• Meyer, Carl S., ed. Moving Frontiers: Readings in the History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1964.
• Schalk, Carl F. Source Documents in American Lutheran Hymnody. Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1996.
• Sueflow, August R., ed. Heritage in Motion: Readings in the History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1998.
• Wolf, Richard C. Documents of Lutheran Unity in America. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966.

Journals of Church History

• Church History (American Society of Church History)

• Concordia Historical Institute Journal (LCMS)
• Oak Leaves (ELS Historical Society)
• WELS Historical Institute Journal

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