Berthold von Schenk was a pastor of Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 2.3 million members, it is both the eighth largest Protestant denomination and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Synod...

 and pioneer of Lutheran liturgical renewal.

Rev. Von Schenk was trained for ordained ministry at Concordia Seminary

Concordia Seminary

Concordia Seminary is located in Clayton, Missouri, an inner-ring suburb on the western border of St. Louis, Missouri. The institution's primary mission is to train pastors, deaconesses, missionaries, chaplains, and church leaders for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod . The current president of...

, St. Louis, and served first as pastor of a mission congregation in St. Louis, Bethesda Lutheran Church. Notably he served as an inner-city pastor of Our Saviour Lutheran Church & School in The Bronx, New York. He was an internationally renowned author and scholar. He participated in the first of ecumenical Protestant-Roman Catholic consultations prior to Second Vatican Council

Second Vatican Council

The Second Vatican Council addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church and the second to be held at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed...

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Works

• The Presence: An Approach to the Holy Communion. Published by E. Kaufmann, inc, 1945, 189 pages
• The Presence: An approach to the Holy Communion. Edited by Paul Robert Sauer. Published by The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 2010, 174 pages. http://alpb.org/presence.html

Literature

• Berthold Von Schenk (1895-1974): Pioneer of Lutheran Liturgical Renewal By C. George Fry, Joel R. Kurz. Published by E. Mellen Press, 2004 ISBN 0773465502
• Lively Stone: The Autobiography of Berthold Von Schenk By B Von Schenk, C George Fry, Joel R Kurz. Published by American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 2006 ISBN 1892921073
• Sauer, Paul Robert. "Berthold von Schenk: Out of Step or Before His Times?." [Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod pastor and a leader in the Lutheran liturgical renewal movement] Concordia Theological Quarterly 74 (2010) No. 1: 39-56. http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/SauerBertholdVonSchenk74-1,2.pdf.