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American Lutheranism, by Friedrich Bente
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Title: American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod
Author: Friedrich Bente
Release Date: March 30, 2007 [EBook #20941]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Produced by (Rev.) Kurt A. T. Bodling Concordia Senior College, Class of 1976
AMERICAN LUTHERANISM
Volume I Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod By F. BENTE St. Louis, Mo. CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE 1919
PREFACE. Essentially, Christianity is the special divine faith in the truth revealed by the Bible that we are saved, not by our own efforts, works, or merits, but alone by the pure and unmerited grace of God, secured by Christ Jesus and freely offered in the Gospel. And the Christian Church is the sum total of all those who truly believe, and therefore confess and propagate this truth of the Gospel.
Accordingly, the history of Christianity and of the Christian Church is essentially the record concerning this truth, viz., how, when, where, by whom, with what success and consistency, etc., it has been proclaimed, received, rejected, opposed, defended, corrupted, and restored again t