Dialogue Files, 1962, 1967-1987.

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Dialogue Files, 1962, 1967-1987.

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Dialogue files (1962, 1967-1987) contain minutes and agenda, correspondence, reports, articles and papers, participant lists, newsletters, news releases and publications regarding national and international Lutheran conversations with Episcopal, Jewish, Methodist, Orthodox, and Reformed theologians. Records include discussion of committee formation and appointments, dialogue meeting arrangements, Lutheran World Federation requests for resource material on charismatic and evangelistic movements, and distribution and discussion of dialogue papers. Files in the collection are primarily those of U.S.A. National. Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (USANC) Office of Studies Director Virgil R. Westlund; and Lutheran World Ministries (LWM) Office on Studies Directors Eugene L. Brand (1978-1981) and David G. Burke (1983-1987). However, also included is a small amount of correspondence of USANC General Secretary Carl H. Mau, Jr. (1973-1974), and USANC and LWM General Secretary Paul A. Wee (1976-1986). Correspondents include USANC, LWM, and LWF officials, Lutheran Council in the U.S.A. officials, and dialogue participants.

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Wee, Paul A., 1937-

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Westlund, Virgil R., 1931-1993.

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National Lutheran Council

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The National Lutheran Council was formed on September 6, 1918 as a common agency of participating Lutheran church bodies to administer domestic programs, publicize Lutheran activities and beliefs, and provide overseas emergency relief to areas devastated by World War I. Its Administration Committee provided counsel to the Executive Director regarding general administration procedures and prepared and recommended the administration budget. The Committee on Budget directed the financial matters of...

Lutheran World Federation. U.S.A. National Committee

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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...

Burke, David G., 1937-

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Brand, Eugene L., 1931-

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Lutheran Council in the U.S.A (Division of Theological Studies)

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Episcopal Church

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Mau, Carl H., Jr., 1922-1995.

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Lutheran World Ministries (Agency). Office on Studies.

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Lutheran dialogues with other denominations and religions began in the early 1960s under the auspices of the National Lutheran Council (NLC), whose Executive Committee served as the USANC from 1947-1966. In 1967, with the termination of the NLC and the establishment of the USANC as a separate standing body, the USANC and its successor body LWM, continued its participation in the dialogues. The NLC's successor body, the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., also participated in the dialogues through it...