I think that a separate article is needed for the Confessional Lutheran movement because it is not historically a part of the confessing movement at all. The movement to confessional Lutheranism arose in the 1830s as a reaction to pietism on the one side and rationalism on the other. It arrives in America with the emigration of groups like the Saxons of Missouri and Grabau's group in Western New York. Folk like F.C.D. Wyneken come on board as they read Luther and the Book of Concord. Unlike the confessing movement, the Lutheran Confessionalists do not comprimise easily on matters of doctrine and practice. So, although the name's nearly the same, the movement is in fact distinct.  10:55, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)