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At The Ft. Wayne Symposium
WHY NOT BURGDORF, MARQUART, DISSEN, OR BURMEISTER?
“A Last Look at Missouri’s Critical Time: The 1950s to 1970s,” is the theme of the 32nd
Annual Symposium on The Lutheran Confessions to be held at Concordia Seminary, Fort
Wayne, January 21 and 22. The most complete and accurate record of those times can
be found in hundreds of back issues of Christian News, The Christian News Encyclopedia
The Christian Handbook on vital Issues, Kurt Marquart’s An Anatomy of An Explosion,
and Ron Stelzer’s biography of Alfred (Rip) Rehwinkel. Dr. David Scaer, who has been
primarily responsible for selecting the speakers and topics for the symposium turned
down a suggestion that someone speak on Rev. Paul Burgdorf, founder and editor of The
Confessional Lutheran. Burgdorf was editor of this monthly for some 27 years (1941-
1968). He was publicly fighting liberalism in the LCMS long before those who are now
regarded as such bold confessors of the faith had the courage to speak up. Rev. Mark
Bartling would be the ideal pastor to speak on Burgdorf. His father worked on the
Confessional Lutheran with Burgdorf. Bartling is the author of “Paul H. Burgdorf – The
Greatest Confessional Lutheran Theologian of the Twentieth Century” in the December
27, 1999 Christian News. Bartling wrote in part: “Confessional Lutherans are also
making up their lists. They will be somewhat different from the lists compiled by liberal
Lutherans.................................
WHY NOT BURGDORF, MARQUART, DISSEN, OR BURMEISTER?
“A Last Look at Missouri’s Critical Time: The 1950s to 1970s,” is the theme of the 32nd
Annual Symposium on The Lutheran Confessions to be held at Concordia Seminary, Fort
Wayne, January 21 and 22. The most complete and accurate record of those times can
be found in hundreds of back issues of Christian News, The Christian News Encyclopedia
The Christian Handbook on vital Issues, Kurt Marquart’s An Anatomy of An Explosion,
and Ron Stelzer’s biography of Alfred (Rip) Rehwinkel. Dr. David Scaer, who has been
primarily responsible for selecting the speakers and topics for the symposium turned
down a suggestion that someone speak on Rev. Paul Burgdorf, founder and editor of The
Confessional Lutheran. Burgdorf was editor of this monthly for some 27 years (1941-
1968). He was publicly fighting liberalism in the LCMS long before those who are now
regarded as such bold confessors of the faith had the courage to speak up. Rev. Mark
Bartling would be the ideal pastor to speak on Burgdorf. His father worked on the
Confessional Lutheran with Burgdorf. Bartling is the author of “Paul H. Burgdorf – The
Greatest Confessional Lutheran Theologian of the Twentieth Century” in the December
27, 1999 Christian News. Bartling wrote in part: “Confessional Lutherans are also
making up their lists. They will be somewhat different from the lists compiled by liberal
Lutherans.................................
