Title: The Lutherans in Georgia : an informal history from Spain to the space age /
Authors: Ahrendt, Theodore G.
Publisher: Adams Press,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Lutheran Church Georgia.; Lutherans Georgia.
Contents: The land before Oglethorpe -- Austria is my homeland no more -- The exile -- The search : construction of the settlement -- Other exiles arrive -- The wish to relocate -- Building an orphanage, church, and other churches -- Their education and business life -- Their religious and civic life -- A patriarchal visit -- Trouble in paradise -- The war of the Revolution -- The post-Revolution era -- Synodical affiliation -- Mission expansion in Georgia -- A Georgia Synod is born -- The Civil War years -- The post-war years -- Atlanta's First Lutheran Church -- The end of the nineteenth century -- Into the twentieth century -- The Missouri Synod comes to Georgia -- Expansion after World War II -- Lutheranism grows and grows in Georgia -- The American Lutheran Church comes to Georgia -- Some progress and some recession -- The nineteen seventies : Wisconsin arrives -- A miscellany -- Then and now -- Bibliography -- Appendixes. The Salzburgers who came to Georgia -- The constitution of Jerusalem Church at Ebenezer -- List of clergy, trustees, deacons, and church members at Ebenezer on the eve of the Revolution -- Synods and church bodies represented -- Expansion of churches and stations since World War II.