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- Title: What Is Normative in Contemporary Lutheran Worship? Word and Sacrament As Non-Negotiable (Essay)
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 282 KB
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I. The question of what is normative in Lutheran worship Within a few days of each other, three pieces came across my desk, which gave me pause and led me to reflect on the state of liturgical-sacramental life within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Two were written by parish pastors, and the third was written by a now former synod bishop. In the first, Pastor #1, in a short column in The Lutheran, (1) as part of his attempt to give a greater emphasis to Pentecost as one of the three great but neglected festival days on the liturgical calendar, described his own practice of creating an actual season of preparation for Pentecost in his parish, which he calls "Prepent," This season of prepararion begins on the Sunday before Pentecost ("Prepent Sunday"), i.e., the Seventh Sunday of Easter, and includes even a color change for paraments and vestments from the white of Easter to the red of Pentecost. In the second, Pastor #2 in a short article in Lutheran Partners, questioned not only the dominance of "forgiveness of sins" language within traditional Lutheran liturgical-sacramental formulations, but critiqued the way in which the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist themselves have, apparently, come to overshadow, in an ex opere operato fashion(!), the primacy of both the word and the doctrine of justification by faith in contemporary Lutheranism.(2) In the third, the former synod bishop not only stated the goal of congregational worship as being "always that the Word of God can be spoken and received and that worshipers are enabled to express their prayers and praise," but argued as well that "each of us Christians must come to worship discussions with the attitude that worship is not only for me, it is also always for the sake of others." Consequently:
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