Lutheran - Reformed Dialogue Files, 1961-1972.

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Lutheran - Reformed Dialogue Files, 1961-1972.

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Lutheran - Reformed Dialogue files (1961-1972) contain minutes and agenda, correspondence, reports, dialogue papers and responses, resolutions, addresses, notes, news releases, newspaper articles, publications, and participant lists concerning dialogue meetings and arrangements; distribution and discussion of dialogue papers; and publication of the dialogue document, "Marburg Revisited." The collection also contains copies of the dialogue publication series, "A Re-examination of Lutheran and Reformed Traditions I-IV." Files are those of Paul C. Empie in his capacity as National Lutheran Council Executive Director. (1948-1966) and U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (USANC) General Secretary (1967-1972, 1974-1975). Correspondents include James I. McCord, President of the Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey and North American Secretary of the North American Area of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches Holding the Presbyterian Order; and Theodore G. Tappert, professor at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and Lutheran dialogue participant.

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Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod.

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McCord, James I. (James Iley), 1919-1990

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Tappert, Theodore G. (Theodore Gerhardt), 1904-1973

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The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) was founded as the successor body to the Lutheran World Convention at its Lund Assembly in Sweden in 1947. The new LWF constitution stipulated that each country in which LWF member church bodies were located establish a national committee to carry out its work and nurture its relationship with that country's member churches. The Executive Committee of the National Lutheran Council, an inter-Lutheran agency established to direct the Lutheran missio...

Empie, Paul C.

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National Lutheran Council. Executive Director (1948-1966 : Empie)

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The Lutheran - Reformed Dialogue was initiated in 1961 when the National Lutheran Council (NLC), acting as the U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (USANC), met with theologians from the North American Area of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches Holding the Presbyterian Order. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod was also invited to participate. The purpose of the dialogues was to identify differences which had divided the two denominations in the past and st...