Gertz

Refers to ULBRA as the fourth main university in Brazil1 (10)
describes tendency of prominent Lutherans to underplay Lutheran identity2 (11-12)
poinst to the fact that even during times of repression of Protestantism there was not a mass defection to Catholicism, not even ethnic German Catholicism3 (15)
resistance against central authority, including religious synods, of immigrant Germans4 (16)
urban middle class willing to finance Lutheran church buildings, but little commitment5 (18)
development of EST, adoption of Liberation Theology, progressive leadership within IECLB6 (21-22)
R Gertz, “Os Luteranos no Brasil” Revista de História Regional 6:2 (2001) 9-33