Research Catalog

Title

A journey of grace : the formation of a leader and a church : an autobiography / Herbert W. Chilstrom ; foreword by Martin E. Marty.

Author

Chilstrom, Herbert W., 1931-

Publication

Minneapolis : Huff Pub. Associates : Lutheran University Press, c2011

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Additional Authors

Marty, Martin E., 1928-

Description

xvii, 614 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Chilstrom, Herbert W., 1931-
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America > Biography
• Lutheran Church > Bishops > Biography
• Lutheran Church > Clergy > Biography
• Minnesota > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

My parents: good, ordinary, pious, Swedish -- Birth and early years: big family, big garden, big bills -- Youth: finding faith and career -- College and a life partner: two good choices -- Theological formation: Augustana Seminary -- Ordination and our first parish -- Stretching years: college teaching and graduate study -- Return to the parish -- Call to be a bishop: the Minnesota Synod years -- In the shipyard: building a new Lutheran church -- Moving the ship out of the harbor: first term as presiding bishop (1987-1991) -- Other ships on the seas: ecumenical and sister church relationships -- Keeping the ship on course: second term a presiding bishop (1991-1995).

ISBN

• 9781932688610
• 1932688617

OCLC

• 742519009
• SCSB-11215297

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library