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| This is Augustana College's Old Main building, above the Mississippi River Valley. I met Mrs. Ichabod on the first day of classes. |
"Yesterday’s post on Dwight Moody mentioned how popular his sermons and the hymns of his associate Ira D Sankey were with Swedish pietists.
Although neither visited Sweden, their influence, particularly between 1875 and 1880 during a time called ‘Moody Fever’, is still acknowledged today, as we’ll see.
A group of Swedish pietists in the United States publish a journal called Pietisten (Pietist), based in Minneapolis (emphases mine):"
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GJ - The Swedish Augustana Synod was a major component of the Lutheran Church in America merger in 1962, with about 400,000 members. The group began as a Pietistic migration to America but changed course under various influences, including Passavant.
I worked at the Augustana library and helped archive ancient, dusty bound volumes of Pietisten. I never realized I would write my dissertation about a man who taught on that campus, who was probably my mother's undergraduate professor. A. D. Mattson also went to Yale Divinity School.
Mrs. Ichabod lived at Andreen, a dorm named after a full professor at Yale who left an established academic career to bring this little college out of insolvency. Andreen's daughter was friends with my mother, through the education system.
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Although neither visited Sweden, their influence, particularly between 1875 and 1880 during a time called ‘Moody Fever’, is still acknowledged today, as we’ll see.
A group of Swedish pietists in the United States publish a journal called Pietisten (Pietist), based in Minneapolis (emphases mine):"
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| My German professor created this watercolor of the Denkmann Library, where I worked, with Old Main in the background. |
GJ - The Swedish Augustana Synod was a major component of the Lutheran Church in America merger in 1962, with about 400,000 members. The group began as a Pietistic migration to America but changed course under various influences, including Passavant.
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| My mother was the first in her family to graduate from college. Her four children earned 12 academic degrees and two CPA designations. |
I worked at the Augustana library and helped archive ancient, dusty bound volumes of Pietisten. I never realized I would write my dissertation about a man who taught on that campus, who was probably my mother's undergraduate professor. A. D. Mattson also went to Yale Divinity School.
Mrs. Ichabod lived at Andreen, a dorm named after a full professor at Yale who left an established academic career to bring this little college out of insolvency. Andreen's daughter was friends with my mother, through the education system.
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| This Medieval monastery is actually an outside hallway on Zion Hill, where Augustana Seminary was located, next to the college. The seminary merged to form Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, during the time we were undergraduates. The seminary became the science center. |
PS - There is a fake Augustana College, just as there is a fake Ichabog. Success breeds envy and copy-cats. The fake Augustana is a college in Sioux Falls. If you look up Augustana in Google images, it may take you to the fake school. Do not be fooled.
