Throwback Thursday: The Deathbed of Lutheranism
Note: This was published August 31, 2018. ~ Ed.
The Rev. Friedrich Bente is known mostly among us for his Historical Introductions to the Lutheran Confessions. He graduated Concordia Seminary in 1881, and served parishes in Ontario while simultanously serving as a District President from 1887-1893. It was in 1893 that he became Professor at Concordia Seminary where he served until 1926. He was also longtime editor of Lehre und Wehre, the Synod's magazine.