Sundberg, Walter.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction. Controversy over liturgical practice — Lutheran identity — I. Worship as repentance. Blessed repetition — Familiarity breeds contempt — The sectarian tradition — The Samaritan woman — II. The witness of the early church. Superstition — Baptism — The Lord’s supper — Penance — Seeds of change — III. Luther and the binding key. Penance as blessed repetition — The necessity of explicit faith — Baptism — The office of the keys — Private confession — Public confession — The Lord’s supper — The arduous liturgical tradition — IV. The attack on private confession. Schmucker’s challenge — William Julius Mann’s response — Mann and the Lutheran liturgical tradition — Extreme absolutionism — Forgiveness as unconditional — A public order of confession — V. Emergence of an opposing tradition. The original sin moment — Worship as repentance — The morphology of American Lutheranism at mid-twentieth century — Worship as ritual participation in the divine — The attack on penitential piety — The limitations of eucharistic piety — From the altar to the confessional — Appendix I. The order for public confession : Common service book (1917) — Appendix II. The order for public confession : Service book and hymnal (1958) — Appendix III. Invocation and brief order for confession : Service book and hymnal (1958).
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