biography
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Krauth, Charles Porterfield
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| male
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| lived:
| (1823–83)
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| biography:
| Protestant clergyman and theologian, born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA. A studious child, he was ordained in the Lutheran ministry at age 19. As a leader of conservative Lutheranism, he helped to revive older European forms of worship, including confession, in America. He edited the journal Lutheran and Missionary (1861–7) and from 1868 until his death was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His Conservative Reformation and Its Theology appeared in 1871. |
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