{"id":7272,"date":"2025-06-13T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7272"},"modified":"2025-06-21T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:15:21","slug":"spring-2025-featured-essay-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7272","title":{"rendered":"SUMMER 2025 Featured Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7272\" class=\"elementor elementor-7272\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-375bc5cc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"375bc5cc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-57116ddd\" data-id=\"57116ddd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb7199 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eb7199\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><em>Missouri\u2019s Twin Traumas\u00a0<\/em><em>II. The Seminex Crisis <\/em><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d971b21 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"d971b21\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c37cee\" data-id=\"1c37cee\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5a5907 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d5a5907\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5362 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/vdma_bw.jpg\" alt=\"VDMA\" width=\"119\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/vdma_bw.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/vdma_bw-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/vdma_bw-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/>(1974\u2013) by <\/em>Jon Diefenthaler<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><em> The 1974 \u201cWalk Out\u201d of faculty and students at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, resulting in \u201cSeminex,\u201d may be viewed as the second of twin traumas in the history of the Lutheran Church\u2013Missouri Synod. Evidence that it has served to reinforce some effects of the trauma of the \u201cStephan crisis\u201d 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 \u201corthodox\u201d religious heritage.<\/em><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><em>Read the full essay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03_LUT_39-2_Diefenthaler_185-212.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of two recent anniversaries, the 175th of its founding in 1847 and the fiftieth of the \u201cWalk Out\u201d of faculty and students in 1974&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7272"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}