The 1927 version was an update to The Lutheran Cyclopedia (New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898), edited by Henry Eyster Jacobs and Charles A. W. Haas, of the General Council and its Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Because the shift from the 1898 to 1927 versions occurred between different denominations of Lutherans, the point of view for certain articles shifted accordingly.
The 1927 version of The Lutheran Cyclopedia was an update to the 1898 edition, with a shift in perspective due to differences in viewpoints among various Lutheran denominations.