A Difficult Letter Tells a Story, and a Team of Transcribers Brings it to Life
Understanding American Lutheran divisions over doctrine cannot be disentangled from disagreements over slavery. In this presentation, Dr. Maria Erling will discuss a letter sent by C.F.W. Walther, a leader of the conservative Missouri Synod, to Gustav Seyffarth, an antislavery Egyptologist who left St. Louis and came out against the Missouri Synod’s position on slavery. This […]
