Title: The rise and fall of American Lutheran pietism :
Authors: Kuenning, Paul P.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Mercer University Press,
Physical description: vi, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: 1. German roots -- Ethical activism -- The theology of ethical activism -- 2. The first century in North America -- The transplantation to North America -- Henry M. Muhlenberg: Pietist -- Muhlenberg's Pietist colleagues -- Pietism in New York State -- Muhlenberg's Pietist successors -- Postrevolutionary Pietism in the South -- American-educated Pietist leaders -- Organization of the General Synod -- Samuel Simon Schmucker -- Organization of Synod and Seminary -- 3. Activism -- Sanctification -- Millennialism -- Conversion, missions, and revivals -- Schism in New York Sate -- Ecumenism -- Moral reform -- Sabbath observance -- Temperance -- Peace -- 4. Abolitionism -- Schmucker's abolitionism: Biblical views -- Natural and civil rights -- Colonization and immediatism -- Moderating influences: Southern ties -- A Lutheran abolitionist synod -- Biblical and theological basis -- Moderate immediatists -- Other Lutheran synods respond to the slavery issue -- Scandinavian immigrants respond to abolition -- German immigrants respond to abolition -- Southern Lutherans respond to abolition -- The Reverend Daniel A. Payne -- Silence and neutrality -- 5. An abolitionist leader -- The confessional conflict reexamined -- Abolitionism: A cause for rejection? -- 6. An abolitionist synod -- Reaction and opposition -- Confessional controversy -- A civil court decision -- Confessional stance of other Lutheran synods -- The General Synod -- Application for membership -- Rejection -- Reasons for rejection sought and discovered -- Rejection retracted -- Continuing conflict -- Tentative acceptance and reactions -- schism and its causes -- 7. Samuel Schmucker and the Frackean Synod -- Conclusion.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century.; Franckean Evangelic Lutheran Synod--History.; Lutheran Church--United States--History--19th century.; Pietism--United States--History--19th century.; Schmucker, S. S. (Samuel Simon), 1799-1873.