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The Anti-Missourian Brotherhood was the name of a group of Lutheran pastors and churches in the United States that left the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Norwegian Synod).〔(''The Lutherans in North America'' (Nelson, E. Clifford ''The Predestination Controversy'', pp. 315-ff. Fortress Press, Philadelphia,PA. 1975) ) 〕 In 1872, the Norwegian Synod had been a co-founder of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America, along with the Missouri, Wisconsin, and Ohio synods. The Norwegian Synod soon experienced internal division over questions concerning predestination and conversion, a conflict known as the Predestination Controversy (''naadevalgsstriden''). During the decade of the 1880s about a third of its congregations left. The dispute led to hard feelings and a polarized church body. There were depositions of pastors by their congregations, squabbles over ordinations and the editorial policies of periodicals, disputed elections of district officers, and the like. The Anti-Missourian Brotherhood began to function as an entity within the Synod and established its own seminary at St. Olaf College in 1886.〔(''The United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, A Historical Sketch'' (Ingebrikt Grose. Rolvaag Library. St. Olaf College. Northfield, MN) )〕 The Anti-Missourians were so named because they disagreed with the predestination position which was associated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The Anti-Missourians opposed the views of C. F. W. Walther, of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, on these questions. They left the Norwegian Synod at its annual meeting in Stoughton, Wisconsin during 1887. Among the leading advocates of the anti-Missourian position were Bernt Julius Muus (founding pastor of St. Olaf College), J. N. Kildahl and Thorbjorn N. Mohn (both St. Olaf College presidents), and Luther Seminary Professor M. O. Bockman.〔 (''The Predestination Controversy'' (The Scheie, Fosmark, Oppegaard, Mykleby Families) )〕 In 1890 the Anti-Missourian Brotherhood congregations joined with the Norwegian Augustana Synod and the Norwegian-Danish Conference to form the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America which was a forerunner of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anti-Missourian Brotherhood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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