Strangers to Sisters - Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Library: Essays
Strangers to Sisters - Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Library: Essays
Strangers to Sisters - Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Library: Essays
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We believe it best <strong>to</strong> wait until 1945 before trying <strong>to</strong> open a<br />
<strong>Seminary</strong>, since there are many questions that must be<br />
settled before the school can actually be opened…<br />
I have suggested <strong>to</strong> some of the brethren that the Synod<br />
ought <strong>to</strong> have the chance <strong>to</strong> consider also some alternative<br />
plans such as this, that we ask the Wis. Synod <strong>to</strong> let us<br />
appoint one professor at Thiensville…who would give our<br />
students some of the special training the work in our<br />
congregations requires…I believe the Wis. Synod would be<br />
agreeable <strong>to</strong> this plan and do not think the differences<br />
between us and some of their professors are serious enough<br />
<strong>to</strong> make it impracticable <strong>to</strong> cooperate with then in a<br />
theological school. 122<br />
In summary, each approach, the Norwegian Hermeneutic and the Wauwa<strong>to</strong>sa<br />
method, despite their heavy accents, were nothing more than a conscious return <strong>to</strong> the<br />
Sola Scriptura principle. Far from hindering their fraternal relationship, their unique<br />
accents would become a blessing, causing them <strong>to</strong> listen <strong>to</strong> each other much more<br />
closely. In the years <strong>to</strong> come, these strangers would recognized that despite the his<strong>to</strong>rical,<br />
cultural and practical differences that they had with each other, they approached the<br />
Scriptures the same way, while former brothers and allies would increasingly stray away<br />
from pure doctrine and sound practice.<br />
.<br />
122 George Lillegard <strong>to</strong> the Board of Regents of Bethany <strong>Lutheran</strong> College, letter, January 13, 1944. ELS<br />
Presidential File:1940s. Evangelical <strong>Lutheran</strong> Synod Archives, Manka<strong>to</strong>, MN.<br />
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