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  • Story: Source: The Edwardsville Intelligencer

    September 18, 1928<br>KFUO, St. Louis, 545.1m-550kc&mdash;<br>8, address, &quot;Objections Against Inspiration<br>of the Bible Answered,&quot;<br><strong>Prof. Theo. Graebner</strong>; musical program<br>by quartette of Pilgrim Lutheran<br>church.

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  • Story: Graebner Papers At Concordia

    <span style="font-size: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>&nbsp;</span>(<strong>Last of Graebner Papers Opened</strong> from Lutheran Historical Conference Newsletter, 6/8/81.</font></span><span style="font-size: 9pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">The final boxes of the personal papers of Dr. Theodore Graebner were opened on September 29, 1980, thirty years after his death on November 14, 1950.<span>&nbsp; </span>Sealed since then, the papers are now available to researchers at the Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, Missouri.</font></font></span><span style="font-size: 9pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Dr. Graebner, born in 1876, and the son of the noted Lutheran Historian, Prof. A. L. Graebner, was one of the leading Lutheran personalities of the 20<sup>th</sup> century in the United States.<span>&nbsp; </span>After a brief pastorate, he served with distinction on the faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, from 1813 to 1950.<span>&nbsp; </span>During this time he served on several boards and committees of the LUTHERAN Church &ndash; Missouri Synod, including those dealing with youth work, inter-Lutheran relations, and fraternal organizations.<span>&nbsp; </span>He held membership in several educational and cultural societies and was active in organizing and promoting the Lutheran Laymen&rsquo;s League, the Lutheran Hour, the Lutheran Women&rsquo;s Missionary League, and the St. Louis Bach Society A prolific writer, he authored many<span>&nbsp; </span>works on evolution, spiritism, the papacy, Lutheran union, and masonry.<span>&nbsp; </span>His chief influence in the Synod was as editor of the Lutheran<em> Witness</em> from 1914-1949.<span>&nbsp; </span>At various times he also edited the Lutheran<em> Herald, Deer Lutheraner, </em>and the <em>Concord Theological Monthly&hellip;</em>His voluminous personal papers . . . include over 30,000 items and take up 112 feet of shelf space.) </font></font></span>

  • Story: Nephew Remembers

    <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Theodore Graebner</strong> &ndash; my father&rsquo;s uncle through marriage to Selma Brohm.<span>&nbsp; </span>He was a well known theologian and scholar and ahead of his time.<span>&nbsp; </span>In my first year as a seminarian I worked for him cataloging German theological books which were being sent to him from Germany.<span>&nbsp; </span>After the war he was instrumental in initiating the Bad Boll meetings in Germany, meetings of Missouri Synod theologians with German Lutheran theologians.<span>&nbsp; </span>He was busy having German theological scholarship sent to America, particularly Luther research of the particularly fertile research of the preceding generation.<span>&nbsp; </span>In cataloging these<span>&nbsp; </span>books I came to learn the names of books and scholars the were in my studies in subsequent years.<span>&nbsp; </span>At the time Dr. Graebner was an elderly gentleman and I recall him often sleeping at his desk while I labored.<span>&nbsp; </span>He died a year or two afterward. We did have a few friendly chats.<span>&nbsp; </span>Since his wife was his first cousin they had to come to Waterford, Wisconsin where my grandfather Albert Bartling was pastor in order to be legally married.<span>&nbsp; </span>I recall dad stating he remembered the occasion.<span>&nbsp; </span>The scholarship of men like Graebner opened the door to a segment of Missouri Synod thinking, one element in the type of openness that led to a clash with traditional Missouri Synod insular thought, all climaxing in the later Faculty Walkout<span>&nbsp; </span>and creation of Seminex (Concordia Seminary in Exile).<span>&nbsp; </span>In the 40ies and 50ies Graebner was already being attacked as a &ldquo;liberal&rdquo; &ndash; a member of <em>The 44</em> (a group of theologians wanting to move Mo. Synod in a more open and progressive direction). Theodore&rsquo;s brother Martin was president of Concordia College, St. Paul, Minnesota.<span>&nbsp; </span>One day I salvaged his sturdy oak desk which was to be discarded, refinished it and used it for many years.<span>&nbsp; </span>Son Fred now has this antique.<span>&nbsp; </span>Martin&rsquo;s picture hangs on the wall along with other former presidents of Concordia St. Paul in the so-called family dining room.<span>&nbsp; </span>Another brother of whom previous mention was made was Rudolph, pastor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin..</font></p>

 
 
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