The Professorship That Never Came

In May 1948 Hermann Sasse wrote President Behnken six pages on what Bad Boll would face: the long slide of the German territorial churches toward unionism, the Free Churches as the conscience of German Lutheranism, and verbal inspiration as the one serious obstacle. He crossed the ocean that summer as Missouri's guest. The faculty that had invited him to teach did not let him teach.

Read the post, with the letter's first page and sources, at badbollbook.com/the-professorship