Muhlenberg's Ministerium, Ben Franklin's Deism, and the Churches of the 21st Century: Reflections on the 250th Anniversary of the Oldest Lutheran Chur

by John Henry Paul Reumann

Special volume celebrating a 250-year-old American church body

In 1748 six Lutheran pastors and laity from ten congregations gathered in Philadelphia under German missionary pastor Henry Melchior Muhlenberg to form the Ministerium of Pennsylvania -- the first Lutheran church body in North America. These early American Lutherans stood at the crossroads of Lutheran orthodoxy, pietism, and rationalism as they faced the very new, very American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802862462
• ISBN13: 9780802862464
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"