{"id":1681,"date":"2014-09-29T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/?page_id=1681"},"modified":"2014-09-29T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T20:27:43","slug":"norwegian-synod","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/norwegian-synod\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #800000\">Norwegian Synod. 1853-1917.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian Synod, often known simply as the Synod, was the synod among Norwegian-Americans most concerned with theological orthodoxy and preserving the practices of the Church of Norway. J.W.C. Dietrichson, an ordained clergyman from Norway founded the the Synod 1853. The Synod originally trained its pastors at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, but later founded Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The Synod fostered close ties with C.F.W. Walther and the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod which embroiled it in controversies over slavery and predestination. The predestination controversy led to a split in the Synod in 1888, out of which came the Anti-Missourian Brotherhood. In 1917, the Synod joined with the United Church and Hauge\u2019s Synod to form the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=&#8221;Divider&#8221; color=&#8221;#9b0101&#8243; show_divider=&#8221;on&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Norwegian Synod. 1853-1917. The Norwegian Synod, often known simply as the Synod, was the synod among Norwegian-Americans most concerned with theological orthodoxy and preserving the practices of the Church of Norway. J.W.C. Dietrichson, an ordained clergyman from Norway founded the the Synod 1853. The Synod originally trained its pastors at Concordia Seminary in St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":859,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1681","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4QTkz-r7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1681\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}