Concordia Seminary in Exile (Saint Louis, MO)

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection of audio tapes (reel-to-reel) are partially itemized. However, there are significant sections that are not. These include sections on LWML, Lutheran Missions, Family Worship Hour, Day by Day with Jesus, and the Slovak Lutheran Hour. The missions materials includes items from Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, Central America, Great Britain, Belgium, France, South America, India, the Middle East, and West Africa.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and other documents concerning Seminex Placement

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of adjudication, correspondence, and materials relating to the Seminex controversy. Council of President meeting minutes from 1971-1985 were duplicate, contained no marginalia, and are held elsewhere in the CHI collection.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The first, "Papers", series contains faculty interviews and correspondence regarding the Seminex walkout, essays, speeches, audio tapes, and mostly sermons.

Content Description

This collection contains a chronology of events as they occured in the days leading up the walkout with related supporting documents.

Specific items include a white wooden cross (added to Museum Holdings), a seminex diploma, an autographed copy of Memoirs in Exile, Synod Reports, Seminex class lists (1974-1976), and other related material.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains class photographs, bulletins, and correspondence.

Scope and Contents 1974 June 12 1974 June 21 - "First Seminex Graduate Ordained" 1974 July 9 - "52 Seminex Grads Already Placed" 1974 July 26 - "Great Days Ahead" 1974 August 12 1974 October 14 1974 October 28 - "Tietjen Dismissed by 801 Board" 1974 November 29 1975 January 17 1975 February 4 - "Tietjen Elected Seminex President" 1975 March 13 - "Tietjen...