Carl Christian Rasmussen

Carl Christian Rasmussen (also in the written variant Carl C. Rasmussen ; born September 21, 1890 in Troy , Rensselaer County , New York ; † December 17, 1992 in Lititz , Lancaster County , Pennsylvania ) was an American Lutheran clergyman and theologian.

Life

Family and education

Carl Christian Rasmussen, son of Hans Rasmussen and his wife Bertha Marie Andersen, attended Hartwick Seminary near Cooperstown from 1907 to 1909 . He then enrolled at Gettysburg College and graduated there in 1912 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then studied theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg . In 1915 he was nominated for the pastoral ministry in the United Lutheran Church in America ordained . More study visits led Rasmussen in 1923 to Columbia University , where he the degree of Master of Arts acquired in the years 1925 to 1926, the University of Pennsylvania and in 1940 at the University of Copenhagen . Rasmussen received his doctorate in 1928 from Gettysburg College to the Doctor of Divinity .

Rasmussen married Alma Irene Sieber (1890–1994) on June 28, 1916. From this connection came the married to Charles Robert Shelton III daughter Mary Elizabeth and the son Carl Christian junior. Rasmussen moved his retirement home to Lititz in the state of Pennsylvania in 1978, where he died in late 1992 at the old age of 102.

Professional background

After his ordination Rasmussen received the pastor's position at the Zion Lutheran Church in Newville . In 1919 he moved to the Trinity Lutheran Church in Altoona , in 1922 to the Zion Lutheran Church in Greensburg , in 1923 to the Messiah Lutheran Church in Harrisburg . In 1930 Rasmussen moved to Washington, DC , where he had been appointed pastor at Luther Place Memorial Church. After returning to Pennsylvania, he was appointed professor of systematic theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, and in 1963 he was ceremoniously retired.

Carl Christian Rasmussen also served as Director of Christian Education of the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association from 1925 to 1926 , as President of the East Pennsylvania Synod of United Lutheran Church from 1929 to 1930, and in the same capacity of the Maryland Synod of the United from 1937 to 1939 Lutheran Church . He also worked from 1936 to 1937 as a speaker for the National Preeching Mission and from 1940 to 1941 in the same capacity for the National Christian Mission.

Rasmussen was a Freemason and a member of the American Theological Society. He was particularly prominent through articles in religious magazines.

Publications

• author
• Contributions in: Miles Henry Krumbine: American Lutheran preaching; twenty-five sermons by ministers of the United Lutheran church, Harper & brothers, New York, London, 1928
• Contributions in: Hermann Frederick Miller (Ed.): Epistle messages; Sermons on the Epistles, The United Lutheran publication House, Philadelphia, 1935
• Contributions in: Jesse Moren Bader: The message and method of the new evangelism: a joint statement of the evangelistic mission of the Christian church, Round Table Press, New York, 1937
• What about Scandinavia ?, Muhlenberg Press, Philadelphia, 1948
• Translator from Swedish
• Anders Nygren : Commentary on Romans, Muhlenberg Press, Philadelphia, 1949
• Anders Nygren: This is the church, Muhlenberg Press, Philadelphia, 1952
• Gustaf Wingren : The Christian's calling: Luther on vocation, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1957

literature

• Abdel Ross Wentz: History of the Gettysburg theological seminary of the General synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States and of the United Lutheran Church in America, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1826-1926, Printed for the seminary by the United Lutheran publication house , Philadelphia, Pa., 1927, pp. 567, 568.
• Julius Caesar Schwarz: Who's who in the clergy. : volume I, 1935-36, The editor, New York, 1936, p. 946.
• George Washington Sandt: The Lutheran. : volume XXIII, The United Lutheran publication House, Philadelphia, 1940, p. 27.
• Julius Caesar Schwarz: Religious Leaders of America. : volume II, 1941-42, The editor, New York, 1941, p. 911.
• United Lutheran Church in America: Minutes of the ... Convention of the United Lutheran Church in America. : volume XIII-XIV, Board of Publication of the United Lutheran Church in America, Philadelphia, 1942, p. 337.
• Who was who in America. : volume VIII, 1982-1985 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1985, p. 331.
• The Gettysburg Times, December 22, 1992, p. 3.

Web links

• The grave of the Reverend Dr. Carl Christian Rasmussen on the website pennsylvaniagravestones.org; Retrieved January 22, 2012