Red Wing Seminary

Red Wing Seminary in 1915

Red Wing Seminary was a Lutheran Church seminary located in Red Wing, Minnesota. [1]

History

Red Wing Seminary was the educational center for the Hauge's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Synod in America, commonly known as the Hauge Synod. The synod de-emphasized formal worship and stressed personal faith in the Haugean tradition (haugianere). Red Wing Seminary opened in 1879 and was in operation until 1917. Notable alumni included Bernt B. Haugan, Nils Nilsen Ronning, August Herman Andresen [2] [3] and Knute Hill.[4]

In 1917, the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America was formed by merger of the Hauge Synod, the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (commonly called the Norwegian Synod), and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. Each of the three churches operated a seminary, so the Norwegian Synod's Luther Seminary and the United Norwegian's United Church Seminary, both in Saint Paul, Minnesota, were merged with the Red Wing Seminary to form the Luther Theological Seminary on the site of the United Church Seminary. [5]

Following the merger in 1917, the Red Wing facility initially continued as an academy and junior college of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. The academy, which operated into the 1920s with the facilities used for other educational purposes, closed in the 1930s.

References

  1. ↑ "Red Wing Seminary building, Red Wing, Minnesota". Minnesota Reflections. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Hallgeir Elstad. "haugianere". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  4. ↑ Red Wing Seminary; Fifty Years of Service. (Published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary, September 15 to 17, 1929. Editor-in-chief, Arthur Rholl. 1930)
  5. ↑ History of Luther Seminary (Luther Seminary)

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