General Synod, fullt navn Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of North America, var et luthersk kirkesamfunn i USA som ble grunnlagt i 1820 da delstatlige synoder bestemte seg for å danne en nasjonal sammenslutning. Tidlig var det en mistro fra konservative lutherske grupperinger, som mente at General Synod var for liberal og økumenisk innrettet, eller ville bli fort hierarkisk.
I 1867 utbrøt noen synoder fra General Synod og dannet General Council, som sod for en mer konservativ tolkning av lutherdommen. Fremfor alt mente man at General Council var for økumenisk innrettet overfor de reformerte kirker.
I 1918 ble General Council og General Synod gjenforent i United Lutheran Church in America.
Bibliografi
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- General Synod (1917). Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Convention of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States of America. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lutheran Publication Society.
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