Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod - Bibliography

Bibliography

Pro-Henkelite:

  • Socrates Henkel. History of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod (New Market: Henkel & Co. Printers and Publishers, 1890). This includes the annual convention minutes until the mid-1880s.
  • F. Bente. American Lutheranism, Volume I: Early History of American Lutheranism and the Tennessee Synod. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1919. 148-237.
  • F. Bente. American Lutheranism: Volume II: The United Lutheran Church. St. Louis: Concordia, 1919. pp. 228-43.

Anti-Henkelite (these three books talk about the first decades of the Synod only):

  • S.S. Schmucker. American Lutheran Church. Philadelphia: E. W. Miller, Ranstead Place, 1852. pp. 215-226.
  • Ernest L. Hazelius. History of the American Lutheran Church. Zanesville: Edwin C. Church. 1846. 149-152, 222, 281.
  • G. D. Bernheim. History of the German Settlements and the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina. Philadelphia: The Lutheran Book Store, 1872. 440-445, 485-488.

Neutral

  • C.W. Cassell, W.J. Fink, and Elon O. Henkel. History of the Lutheran Church in Virginia and East Tennessee. Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1930. 48-55, 133-144.

Read more about this topic:  Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod