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American Lutheran Church

Index American Lutheran Church

The American Lutheran Church (ALC or sometimes TALC) was a Christian Protestant denomination in the United States and Canada that existed from 1960 to 1987. [1]

79 relations: American Association of Lutheran Churches, American Lutheran Church (1930), Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, Association of Religion Data Archives, Augsburg Fortress, Augsburg University, Augustana University, Berkeley, California, Biblical inerrancy, Blair, Nebraska, California Lutheran University, Capital University, Chicago, Christian, Columbus, Ohio, Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota), Dana College, Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America, Decorah, Iowa, Denmark, Detroit, Dubuque, Iowa, Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio, Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa, Fargo, North Dakota, Forest City, Iowa, Fredrik A. Schiotz, Germany, Hauge Synod, Hennepin County, Minnesota, Luther College (Iowa), Luther Seminary, Lutheran Church in America, Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, Lutheran Council in the United States of America, Lutheran Free Church, Lutheran Synod of Buffalo, Lutheran World Federation, Lutheranism, Middle judicatory, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Moorhead, Minnesota, Native Americans in the United States, ..., Northfield, Minnesota, Norway, Omaha, Nebraska, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Pacific Lutheran University, Parkland, Washington, Pennsylvania Ministerium, Pietism, Protestantism, Religious denomination, Saint Paul, Minnesota, San Antonio, San Diego, Seguin, Texas, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, St. Olaf College, Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Texas Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, United Evangelical Lutheran Church, United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, Upper Midwest, Waldorf University, Wartburg College, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C., Waverly, Iowa, Wittenberg University. Expand index (29 more) »

American Association of Lutheran Churches

The American Association of Lutheran Churches (TAALC, also known as The AALC) is an American Lutheran church body.

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American Lutheran Church (1930)

The American Lutheran Church (ALC) was formed in 1930 from the merger of the three conservative Lutheran synods of German-American origin: The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States (Iowa Synod), established in 1854; the Lutheran Synod of Buffalo, established in 1845; and the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States (Joint Synod of Ohio), established in 1818 from the Ministerium of Pennsylvania.

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Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches

The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) was a U.S. church body that existed from 1976 through the end of 1987.

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Association of Free Lutheran Congregations

Association of Free Lutheran Congregations is the sixth largest Lutheran church body in the United States.

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Association of Religion Data Archives

The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) is a free source of online information related to American and international religion.

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Augsburg Fortress

Augsburg Fortress is the official publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), also publishing for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) as Augsburg Fortress Canada.

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Augsburg University

Augsburg University is a private university in Minneapolis, Minnesota that is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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Augustana University

Augustana University is a private, Norwegian-heritage liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Biblical inerrancy

Biblical inerrancy, as formulated in the "Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy", is the doctrine that the Protestant Bible "is without error or fault in all its teaching"; or, at least, that "Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact".

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Blair, Nebraska

Blair is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Nebraska, United States.

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California Lutheran University

California Lutheran University (also CLU or Cal Lutheran) is a private, liberal arts university located in Thousand Oaks, California.

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Capital University

Capital University (commonly referred to as Capital, Cap, or CU) is a private, accredited, primarily residential, liberal arts and research university in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the state capital and the most populous city in Ohio.

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Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)

Concordia College is a private college located in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States.

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Dana College

Dana College is a defunct baccalaureate college located in Blair, Nebraska.

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Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America

Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America (often known as the Blair Church) was a Lutheran church body that existed in the United States from 1884 to 1896, when it merged into the United Evangelical Lutheran Church.

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Decorah, Iowa

Decorah is a city in and the county seat of Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Dubuque, Iowa

Dubuque is the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States)

The Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC) was a Lutheran denomination that existed from 1917, when it was founded as the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (NLCA), until 1960, when it joined two other church bodies to form the second American Lutheran Church.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) (Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 111,570 baptized members in 519 congregations, with the second largest, the Lutheran Church–Canada, having 60,291 baptized members.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCC) was a Lutheran Christian denomination active in Canada from 1966 to 1985.

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Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio

The Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States, commonly known as the Joint Synod of Ohio or the Ohio Synod, was a German-language Lutheran denomination whose congregations were originally located primarily in the U.S. state of Ohio, later expanding to most parts of the United States.

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Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa

The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States, commonly known as the Iowa Synod, was founded on August 24, 1854 at St.

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Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo is the most populous city in the state of North Dakota, accounting for nearly 16% of the state population.

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Forest City, Iowa

Forest City is a city in Hancock and Winnebago Counties in the U.S. state of Iowa, and the county seat of Winnebago County.

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Fredrik A. Schiotz

Fredrik Axel Schiotz (15 June 1901 – 25 February 1989) was an American Lutheran Church leader, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, President of the Lutheran World Federation and Presiding Bishop of The American Lutheran Church.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Hauge Synod

The Hauge Synod, (formal name was Hauge's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Synod in America) was the name of a Norwegian Lutheran church body in the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

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Hennepin County, Minnesota

Hennepin County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Luther College (Iowa)

Luther College is a private coeducational liberal arts college located in Decorah, Iowa, United States.

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Luther Seminary

Luther Seminary is the largest seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

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Lutheran Church in America

The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was an American and Canadian Lutheran church body that existed from 1962 to 1987.

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Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), often referred to simply as the Missouri Synod, is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.

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Lutheran Council in the United States of America

The Lutheran Council in the United States of America was an ecumenical organization of American Lutherans that existed from 1967 to 1988.

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Lutheran Free Church

The Lutheran Free Church (LFC) was a Lutheran denomination that existed in the United States, mainly in Minnesota and North Dakota, from 1897 until its merger into the American Lutheran Church (ALC) in 1963.

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Lutheran Synod of Buffalo

The Lutheran Synod of Buffalo, founded in 1845 as the Synod of Lutheran Emigrants from Prussia (Synode der aus Preussen ausgewanderten lutherischen Kirche), was commonly known from early in its history as the Buffalo Synod.

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Lutheran World Federation

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF; Lutherischer Weltbund) is a global communion of national and regional Lutheran churches headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer and theologian.

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Middle judicatory

A middle judicatory is an administrative structure or organization found in religious denominations between the local congregation and the widest or highest national or international level.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Moorhead, Minnesota

Moorhead is a city in Clay County, Minnesota, United States, and the largest city in northwest Minnesota.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Northfield, Minnesota

Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the State of Minnesota.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS) in Berkeley, California, is a seminary affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and California Lutheran University, and is a member school of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU).

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Pacific Lutheran University

Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), founded by Norwegian Lutheran pioneers in 1890, is a private university offering liberal arts and professional school programs located in Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma, Washington, United States.

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Parkland, Washington

Parkland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pierce County, Washington, United States.

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Pennsylvania Ministerium

The Pennsylvania Ministerium was the first Lutheran church body in North America.

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Pietism

Pietism (from the word piety) was an influential movement in Lutheranism that combined its emphasis on Biblical doctrine with the Reformed emphasis on individual piety and living a vigorous Christian life.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Religious denomination

A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition, and identity.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Seguin, Texas

Seguin is a city in and the county seat of Guadalupe County, Texas, United States.

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Sioux Falls (Lakota: Íŋyaŋ Okábleča Otȟúŋwahe; "Stone Shatter City") is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 145th-most populous city in the United States.

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St. Olaf College

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Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, commonly called the Norwegian Synod, was founded in 1853.

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Texas Lutheran University

Texas Lutheran University (TLU) is an undergraduate, coeducational, private university of the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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Thousand Oaks, California

Thousand Oaks is the second-largest city in Ventura County, California, United States.

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Trinity Lutheran Seminary

Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, located in Columbus, Ohio.

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United Evangelical Lutheran Church

The United Evangelical Lutheran Church (commonly known as the United Church) was one of the many denominations formed when Lutherans came to the United States from Europe.

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United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America

The United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (UNLC) was the result of the union in 1890 of the Norwegian Augustana Synod (est. 1870), the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (1870), and the Anti-Missourian Brotherhood (1887).

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Upper Midwest

The Upper Midwest is a region in the northern portion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States.

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Waldorf University

Waldorf University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts based institution with roots in the Lutheran tradition offering undergraduate and graduate degrees through both residential and online modalities.

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Wartburg College

Wartburg College is a four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Waverly, Iowa.

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Wartburg Theological Seminary

Wartburg Theological Seminary is a Lutheran (ELCA) seminary located in Dubuque, Iowa.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Waverly, Iowa

Waverly is a city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States.

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Wittenberg University

Wittenberg University is a private four-year liberal arts college in Springfield, Ohio, US, serving 2,000 full-time students representing 37 states and approximately 30 foreign countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lutheran_Church

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