George - are you Lutheran/Missouri Synod? Do you know at what time they changed their stance from purely YEC to what seems to be an embracing of ID in their latest online resources? I remember researching it years back and seeing only YEC info but now they've also added in ID verbiage. This is for my book that I'm writing, and I thought maybe someone who followed it a bit more closely over the past decade might know?
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Wendee
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Ted is right that Lutherans don't seem to have given a great deal of attention to science-theology issues in the perios in question. There were exceptions - Theodore Graebner of the Missouri Synod & Byron Nelson (I believe the current ID Paul Nelson's grandfather) of the old American Lutheran Church. Both were strongly anti-evolution. I don't know as much about the Pennsylvania variety of Lutherans at that period as I do of the more conservative midwestern ones. (Francis Pieper, the chief theologian of Missouri, argued for - though he didn't insist upon - geocentrism in his 1917 _Christliche Dogmatik_. He did insist upon 6 day creation.) I do have one book from the 1920s that deals mostly with cosmological questions by an eastern Lutheran but can't recall name or title now - I'll let you know when I'm home.
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