Download or read book Preus of Missouri and the Great Lutheran Civil War written by James Edward Adams and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When J.A.O. Preus was elected President of the three-million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in 1969, he was virtually unknown outside his own denomination. Most observers were surprised and even the experts did not know what to expect. What they got was a headline-making dispute between Preus and John Tietjen, head of the Synod's prestigious Concordia Seminary; a seminary-in-exile training ministers without official sanction; and finally a Lutheran civil war that has divided congregations and even members of the same family."--Book jacket.