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
65 episodes
TLHP 64 The Election Controversy Revisited with Peter Prange
In this episode, we talk with Peter Prange about the third volume in his series, Wielding the Sword of the Spirit, in which he gets into the details and nuances of the Election Controversy that rocked the Synodical Conference.
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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1:07:41
TLHP 63 Who was Johannes Muehlhaeuser? with Tim Grundmeier
In this WELS 175th episode, Tim Grundmeier and I talk about who Johannes Muehlhaeuser was, Christmas trees, and the founding of the Wisconsin Synod.
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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48:27
Historic Diary Found in Grandpa's Basement!
Image: JP Koehler at Wauwatosa Seminary, candid photo taken by a student.While going through some old boxes in my grandfather's basement, I stumbled upon something truly remarkable: my great-grandfather’s diary. He was a st...
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1:47
TLHP 62 Achtliederbuch-The First Lutheran Hymnal: Details Less Often Told with Nathaniel Biebert
Link to the service and hymns: https://trinitylutheransd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Reformation-Hymn-Festival-2024.pdf The fir...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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59:14
TLHP 61 The Evangelical Lutheran Confessional Forum and Its Role in Founding the CELC with Timothy Plichta
Timothy Plichta is a WELS homeschooled high school student living in Germantown, WI. He loves Lutheran history in general and is especially enthralled with anything related to the CELC.
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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33:33
TLHP 60 Wyneken in Baltimore: Contesting Lutheran Identity 1845-1850
This episode is a fuller version of my presentation given at the 2024 Lutheran Historical Conference in Baltimore. Link to the full video of this episode.One church historian observed that “ It...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:17:51
TLHP 59 Johannes Bugenhagen and Poor Relief with Jason Oakland
Image: Johannes BugenhagenDuring the Reformation Martin Luther restored many Christian teachings to its proper biblical understanding. One of the men who worked with Luther in communicating those teachings was Johannes Bugenhagen. This ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:04:02
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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53:08
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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1:05:01
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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1:14:54
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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1:00:11
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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54:08
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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36:09
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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55:01
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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54:37
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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1:05:24
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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57:18
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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1:05:35
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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58:28
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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46:50
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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42:45
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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1:02:03
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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1:06:53
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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1:06:40
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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