Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgements xxi

1 Baptismal Spirituality in the Early Church and Its Implications for the Church Today 1

2 The Holy Spirit and Lutheran Liturgical-Sacramental Theology 33

3 The Real and Multiple Presences of Christ in Contemporary Lutheran Liturgical and Sacramental Praxis 67

4 Eucharistic Reservation and Lutheranism An Extension of Sunday Worship? 85

5 What Is Normative in Contemporary Lutheran Worship? Word and Sacrament as Nonnegotiable 113

6 Ordinary Time? The Time after Epiphany and Pentecost: Celebrating the Mystery of Christ in All Its Fullness 135

7 The Blessed Virgin Mary and Ecumenical Convergence in Doctrine, Doxology, and Devotion 163

8 The Virgin of Guadalupe in Ecumenical Context 195

9 Satis est: Ecumenical Catalyst or Narrow Reductionism? 221

10 Christian Worship and Ecumenism: What Shall We Do Now? 241

Conclusion 265