John Tietjen

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John Tietjen (born June 18, 1928 in New York City , † February 15, 2004 in Fort Worth , Texas) was an American theologian. The son of German emigrants was a Lutheran pastor.

Life

Tietjen studied theology at Concordia Seminary in Clayton near St. Louis , where he graduated in 1953. With the work Which Way to Lutheran Unity? he received his PhD in 1959 from Union Theological Seminary in New York .

After his inauguration in 1953, he served as a pastor in Teaneck and Leonia, New Jersey , before becoming Executive Director of Public Relations for the Lutheran Council in the USA . In 1969 he became President of the Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) of the Missouri Synod . He protested against an overly fundamental understanding of the Bible by going out together with students and supporters and founded - in execution of the split from the Missouri Synod - the seminary in exile, the so-called Christ Seminary Seminex (Saint Louis and Chicago), of which he became president in 1975 has been. He was a member of the commission that prepared the foundation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in 1987, and was also briefly appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Chicago of the ELCA. In 1989 he became pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Fort Worth, Texas.

family

His grandfather was the Mayor of Appel , Nikolaus Tietjen . His son Larry Tietjen is CEO of Experitec Inc. and MYNAH Technologies in St. Louis .

Fonts

  • Which Way to Lutheran Unity? A History of Efforts to Unite the Lutherans of America. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis 1966.
  • Memoirs in Exile. Confessional Hope and Institutional Conflict . Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis 1976.
  • The Gospel according to Jesus. Creative Communications for the Parish, St. Louis 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Thielicke : Theologie des Geistes, Vol. III, 1978, p. 254.
personal data
SURNAME Tietjen, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2004
Place of death Fort Worth , Texas