John Tietjen

John Tietjen ( born June 18, 1928 in New York City; † 15 February 2004 in Fort Worth, Texas) was an American theologian. The son of German immigrants was a Lutheran pastor.

He studied theology at Concordia Seminary in Clayton in St. Louis, where he graduated in 1953. With the book " Which Way to Lutheran Unity? " he received his doctorate in theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York.

After his inauguration in 1953, he served as pastor in Teaneck and Leonia, New Jersey, before he became executive director of the Department of Public Relations of the Lutheran Council in the USA. In 1969 he became president of Concordia Seminary ( Saint Louis ) of the Missouri Synod. Counter to a fundamental understanding of the Bible, he protested by a joint statement with students and followers and founded - in the enforcement division of the Missouri Synod - the seminar in exile, the so-called Christ Seminary - Seminex ( Saint Louis and Chicago), which he was president in 1975 been. He was a member of the Commission, the establishment of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) prepared in 1987 and was also appointed briefly as bishop of the Diocese of Chicago ELCA. He became pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Fort Worth, Texas in 1989.

Family

His grandfather was the Appeler Mayor Nicholas Tietjen. His son Larry Tietjen is CEO of Experitec Inc. and MYNAH Technologies in St. Louis.

Works

• Memoirs in Exile. Minneapolis in 1976.
• The Gospel According to Jesus, posthumously published in 2006.