The Lutheran Church and Its American Environment. Martin H. Scharlemann

Lutherans landed in America before the arrival of the Mayflower. Some Danish Lutherans, looking for the Northwest Passage, buried forty of their dead on Hudson Bay in 1619. In December of the same year Pastor Rasmus Jensen held a Lutheran Christmas service on the shores of what is now the United Sta...

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Main Author: Scharlemann, Martin H.
Format: Text
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Published: Scholarly Resources from Concordia Seminary 1955
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Online Access:https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol26/iss1/48
https://scholar.csl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3672&context=ctm
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Summary:Lutherans landed in America before the arrival of the Mayflower. Some Danish Lutherans, looking for the Northwest Passage, buried forty of their dead on Hudson Bay in 1619. In December of the same year Pastor Rasmus Jensen held a Lutheran Christmas service on the shores of what is now the United States of America.