The Lutheran History Podcast
The Lutheran History Podcast interviews professional and independent historians on their work, covering over 500 years of Lutheranism. We hear new stories, examine old heroes of faith, and dig into the who, how, what, and why of history-making.
Episodes
58 episodes
TLHP 58 U.V. Koren and C.F.W. Walther’s views on American Government with Andrew Soule
Image U.V. Koren “How is our America doing?” That is the poignant question that C.F.W. Walther (1811 1887), the President of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, asks in his Synod’s theological journal, “Lehre und Wehre” in 1863. In a se...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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53:10
TLHP 57 Becoming Lutheran: The Community of Brunswick from Evangelical Reform to Lutheran Culture with John Maxfield
Image: city of Brunswick (Braunschweig) in the 16th centuryIn Becoming Lutheran, Dr. John Maxfield discusses several key aspects of Lutheran culture that shape the identity and practice of Lutherans as the Reformation grew and ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:05:03
TLHP 56 Lutheran Sermons and Walther's Pastoral Theology with Scott Henrich
We welcome back Pastor Scott Henrich, a WELS pastor serving in Knoxville, Tennessee. His experiences reading historic Lutheran sermons inspired him to research Lutheranism's homiletical heritage in a way that may challenge some contempora...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:14:56
TLHP 55 Sassy Lutherans, the House of Cleves and the Reformation with Heather Darsie
Heather R. Darsie lives in the United States. She has a Bachelor of Arts in German Languages and Literature, and a Juris Doctorate. During her time at university, she had the privilege of studying in Costa Rica and France, with visits to German...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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59:46
TLHP 54 Did Luther have a 3rd Use of the Law? With Bob Kolb
Image: Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Younger"Wittenberg Uses of Law and Gospel"Our guest today Dr. Robert A. Kolb is a professor emeritus of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. See the
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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53:42
TLHP 53 The Wittenberg Concord of 1536
Image: Wittenberg c. 1530 from the host's personal collection.In May 1536 several prominent Reformed reformers traveled to Wittenberg to confess their understanding of what is received in the sacrament of Holy Communion a...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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35:44
TLHP 52 How the Lutheran Church is Constituted with Michael Holmen
In this episode, translator Michael Holmen takes us through J. W. F. Hö...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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54:35
TLHP 51 The Formation of the Wisconsin Synod with Peter Prange
Image: Carl and Gottlieb Damler. These brothers immigrated to Manitowoc County, WI from the principality of Lippe-Detmold in the early 1850s. Although confirmed Reformed, they worshiped first in a union congregation, but then jo...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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54:11
TLHP 50 Worshiping with the Reformers with Karin Maag
Image: Right wing of the Altar Triptych in St. Peter und Paul, Weimar by Cranach - Lutheran princes of the House of Wettin in worshipWorship of the triune God has always stood at the center of the Christian life. That ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:04:58
TLHP 49 Lutherans Burned in Brussels: Details Less Often Told with Nathaniel Biebert
Image: The Account of How Two Men of the Augustinian Order Were Martyred in Brussels in Brabant for the Sake of the Gospel (Erfurt, 1523)Five hundred years ago, on July 1, 1523, two observant Augustinian monks from Antwerp, Hen...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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56:53
TLHP 48 Devotional Life in the Reformation Era with Johann Caauwe
Image:Johann GerhardIn this episode, our guest Rev. Caauwe gives a detailed overview of various forms of Lutheran devotional piety developed in the 16th and 17th centuries as well as a discussion on how that devotional heritage has been tra...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:05:10
TLHP 47 Finding Fellowship: The Formation of the Synodical Conference with Peter Prange
(Image: Synodical Conference founders from Lutherans in All Lands, 1896)Dr. C.F.W. Walther worked tirelessly to realize his dream of a Lutheran Zion in North America that would combine and coordinate ministry efforts of faithful Lu...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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58:03
TLHP 46 A History of Lutheranism in Alaska!
Listen to this tribute to Alaska's Lutheran history as I prepare to say goodbye to the wonderful 49th state with deep and unique Lutheran roots!
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Season 3
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46:25
TLHP 45 "Black Geneva Piety" Changing Views of the Relationship of Doctrine and Liturgy with Mark Braun
"For Midwestern Lutheran synods, the 20th century was especially dramatic and even traumatic. ..In his article, Dr. Braun describes some of the tensions within two predominantly Midwestern Lutheran bodies, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Syn...
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Season 3
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42:20
TLHP 44 Pieper's Preaching (Or, How Lutheran Preaching Has Changed Part II) with Isaac Johnson
Image: Reinhold L. Pieper (1850-1920)Isaac Johnson graduated from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI with a degree in Latin in 2011 and attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN. During his time at seminary he spent two ...
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Season 3
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1:01:37
TLHP 43 “Our Synod is Evangelical-Lutheran"- Early Laity WELS Perspectives Part II
Image: Three generations of Franks and Kerlers in Greenfield 1889."I prefer America," one German Lutheran immigrant wrote. Letters of German Lutheran immigrants in 19th century America give under-analyzed perspectives of lay me...
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Season 3
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1:06:27
TLHP 42 "We have joined the Synod of Muehlhaeuser"- Early Laity WELS Perspectives Part I
Image: Regina, Veronica and Frank Kerler"I prefer America," one German Lutheran immigrant wrote. Letters of German Lutheran immigrants in 19th century America give under-analyzed perspectives of lay members and their views of churc...
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Season 3
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1:06:14
TLHP 41 Mission Expansion In The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, 1929-1983 with Joel D. Otto
In 1929, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) was a small church body serving primarily German immigrants with congregations in twelve states, mostly in the Midwest; the only “foreign” work was a mission on the Apache reservati...
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Season 3
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1:01:00
TLHP 40 Luther’s New Testament Translation: Details Less Often Told with Nathaniel Biebert
In this episode, we welcome back Rev. Nathaniel Biebert to continue his mini-series on lesser-known details of 500th anniversaries of the Reformation.Here, we focus on the 500th anniversary of the "September Testament." In this ca...
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Season 3
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56:35
TLHP 39 Has Lutheran Preaching Changed? with Scott Henrich
Today's guest is Pastor Scott Henrich, a WELS pastor serving in Knoxville, Tennessee. His experiences reading historic Lutheran sermons inspired him to research Lutheranism's homiletical heritage in a way that may challenge some contempor...
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52:12
TLHP 38 Wyneken and the Catechism
From his earliest memories to his final legacy, Wyneken’s life story can be told in connection with the catechism. It is a story of Lutheran catechesis on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a story of centuries of Lutheran catechesis...
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Season 3
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1:00:27
TLHP 37 Reforming Mary:Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the 16th Century with Beth Kreitzer
Image: Albrecht Dürer The AnnunciationToday's guest is Dr. Beth Kreitzer was raised in California and has degrees from Stanford and Duke Universities. Her graduate study in the Program of Religion at Duke focused upon the...
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Season 2
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1:09:56
TLHP 36 Luther at the Wartburg-Details Less Often Told with Nathaniel Biebert
Image: The Wartburg Castle taken during my trip there in 2016.In this episode, we continue our series with Pastor Nathaniel Biebert where he digs into the lesser-known details of important milestones in the life of Luther and the ...
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Season 2
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56:26