By Frederick K. Wentz

Professor of Church History at Lutheran Theological Southern and

Gettysburg Seminaries, former President of Hamma School of Theology

Seminary Ridge Press is pleased to present the story of one of the most important Lutheran institution builders of the 20th century, Dr. Abdel Ross Wentz, who authored the constitutive documents of the Lutheran World
Federation and the World Council of Churches, who expanded and modern-ized American Lutherans’ oldest and most historic seminary, and connected American Lutherans to an emerging global Christian community.

"Abdel Ross Wentz set the terms for our generation" of historians.
— Martin Marty

"Abdel Ross Wentz wrote history and taught ministry in context – knowing the world in which the mission of God is at work. This concept influenced and guided the doing of mission in the Lutheran Church in the last half