24th
Biennial Meeting to Be Held October 11-14, 2008, at Wagner College,
Staten Island,
New York
North American Lutherans have maintained many ties to communities outside themselves: through continuing engagement with Lutheran homelands in Europe; through engagement with other religious groups on this continent; and through engagement in mission and ecumenical contacts outside of North America. These forms of engagement might also include the ministries of social service outreach, disaster relief, and work with newer immigrant communities. Papers being prepared for this conference will examine some aspect of North American Lutheran history as it pertains to one or more of these three kinds of engagement. The focus will be on the interaction between North American Lutherans and the wider world, and how these interactions strengthened, challenged, diversified or directed the development of North American Lutheran communities.
For a list of papers currently on the program, see the current
LHC
Newsletter.
New Publication
Re-examining Conflict and
Cooperation: Implications for Current Understandings of American
Lutheranism
Volume 20 in the LHC Essays and Reports series is now available. The volume contains the papers presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the LHC, held at Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, Missouri, on 17-19 October 2002. Click here for a detailed list of the contents of the volume.
The volume is available from Concordia Historical Institute, 804 Seminary Place, Saint Louis, MO 63105-3014. The cost is $20.00, plus $3.00 for postage and handling.
May 2008 Newsletter Now
Online
Click here
for the May 2008 LHC
Newsletter, which
is now
online
in PDF format. This issue contains a list of papers to be presented at
the 24th biennial meeting in October at Wagner College, Staten Island,
New York. The issue also includes a review of Expanding Horizons for America's
Lutherans: The Abdel Ross Wentz Story, a biography by Frederick
K. Wentz, as well as news of members and new resources.
Become a Member of the LHC
Lutheran archivists, librarians, historians and other interested individuals and institutions are invited to become members of the Lutheran Historical Conference, an interdisciplinary organization founded in 1962. Click here for membership information.
Looking for Resources
We offer a service for anyone seeking information on a topic related to Lutheranism in North America. If you need help finding resources, we will be happy to post the request here on our web site and also in our print newsletter. Send your request to luthhist@luthhist.org.
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This is a discussion list for members of the Lutheran Historical Conference (LHC) and others interested in discussing the history of Lutheranism in North America, asking questions and seeking resources for the study of the subject. Members of the LHC include archivists, historians and librarians of the various Lutheran church bodies, as well as anyone interested in the subject.
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General Information
The LHC holds biennial meetings at which papers on the history of Lutheranism are presented and discussed. These papers are published in a series called Essays and Reports. Monographs on American Lutheran history are also published by the conference.
Lutheran History Resources Online
Links to ebooks and other Lutheran history publications available on the Internet.
- George Wenner, The
Lutherans of New York: Their Story and Their Problems
(1918)
(A Project Gutenberg EBook)
Things to Come
Watch this page for announcements of future developments and resources relating to the work of the LHC, including:
- Electronic versions of out-of-print LHC publications
- Descriptions of research in progress
- Additional links to sites with resources related to Lutheran history
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