(1974–) by Jon Diefenthaler

The 1974 “Walk Out” of faculty and students at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, resulting in “Seminex,” may be viewed as the second of twin traumas in the history of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Evidence that it has served to reinforce some effects of the trauma of the “Stephan crisis” of 1839 appears in post-Seminex assessments of the decades following World War II as a time in which the LCMS progressively drifted away from its “orthodox” religious heritage.

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