Four Points in American Lutheranism
- Four Points in American Lutheranism
Four issues which were divisive among American Lutherans in the 1860s, and continued to be a point of contention into the next century:
*1. chiliasm (or millennialism),
*2. mixed communion (altar fellowship),
*3. exchange of pulpits with sectarians (pulpit fellowship),
*4. and secret or unchurchly societies (such as Masons, the Lodge, etc.).
External links
* [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcrcmg8g_1hgmc9m The Tennessee Synod's Contention for the Four Points in the United Synod of the South 1886-1921]
* [http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=F&word=FOURPOINTS The entire article from the Christian Cyclopedia] .
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