Worship as repentance : Lutheran liturgical traditions and Catholic consensus / Walter Sundberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sundberg, Walter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lutheran Church--Liturgy.

Lutheran Church.

Liturgics.

Public worship--History of doctrines.

Public worship.

Physical Description:

xvi, 190 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.

Summary:

Against Contemporary Trends that conceive of Christian worship primarily as entertainment or sheer celebration, Walter Sundberg argues that repentance is the heart of authentic worship. In Worship as Repentance Sundberg outlines the history of repentance and confession within liturgical practice from the early church to mid-twentieth-century Protestantism, advocating movement away from the "eucharistic piety" common in mainline worship today and toward the "penitential piety" of older traditions of Protestant worship. Book jacket.

Contents:

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

The office of the keys

Private confession

Public confession

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).

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0802867324

9780802867322

OCLC:

756577470

Publisher Number:

99948264997