Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Lutherans and the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964-1975: An Introduction Chapter 2 Tortured for Christ: Lutheran Assessmetns of Global Communism Chapter 3 Has the Tiger Changed Its Stripes? Lutheran Debates about Domestic Communism Chapter 4 Lions Loose in the World: Pro-Vietnam War Lutherans Chapter 5 The Mythology fo Prowling Communists: Lutheran Antiwar Sentiments Chapter 6 Adrift on a Sea of Doubt: Lutheran Debates about Domestic Veitnam Concerns Chapter 7 The Lutheran Cold and Vietnam Wars' Legacy

About the Author

David E. Settje is assistant professor of history at Concordia University.

Reviews

Highly Recommended.
*CHOICE*

[Settje's] approach and careful reading of sources are admirable. Lutherans and the Longest War is an excellent contribution to the genre of denominational studies and a useful starting point for exploring broader issues of religious assent, ambivalence, and dissent during the Cold War.
*H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online, April 2008*

The author does an admirable job in concisely summarizing the historical literature on both the origins of the American war in Vietnam and the landscape of American Lutheranism in the era, carefully distinguishing between the major Lutheran bodies without too much jargon. . . . [Settje] has a keen eye for especially catching phrases.
*Journal of American History*

David Settje provides a close examination of a period largely neglected by other Lutheran historians: the Cold War in general and the Vietnam War in particular.

Settje provides the first comprehensive look at Lutheran thinking on the Cold and Vietnam wars from pew to pulpit, and from editorial offices to denominational headquarters. It extends a microphone into a realm where the silent majority did not hold its tongue, exposing the wide-ranging views and vigorous debates that raged within church circles among those disinclined to march for either side.
*Jill Gill, Boise State University*