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As do all Lutheran bodies, the ELCA traces it roots to the reformer
Martin Luther, a German of the 16th century. In Europe,
Lutheran chruches organized along national lines, and when European
Lutherans came to America, they initially kept the organizations of
their origins. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was
formed on January 1, 1988, by the merger of the American Lutheran
Church, the Lutheran Church in America, and the Association of
Evangelical Lutheran Churches.
The ELCA is moderate in its theology, generally following a
historical criticism approach to Biblical interpretation.
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