Thomas E. Jacobson

The Fundamentalist-Modernist Conflict of the 1920s in the Augustana Synod—and Beyond

The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, known more often as the Augustana Synod, was the only enduring Swedish American Lutheran denomination in American history. Despite its institutional unity, the denomination experienced internal struggles, exemplified by the conflict in the 1920s between so-called "Fundamentali...