Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xv
Abbreviations xvi
Introduction 1
Controversy over Liturgical Practice 1
Lutheran Identity 7
I Worship as Repentance 13
Blessed Repetition 13
Familiarity Breeds Contempt 17
The Sectarian Tradition 22
The Samaritan Woman 29
II The Witness of the Early Church 32
Superstition 33
Baptism 37
The Lord's Supper 42
Penance 44
Seeds of Change 49
III Luther and the Binding Key 54
Penance as Blessed Repetition 54
The Necessity of Explicit Faith 67
Baptism 74
The Office of the Keys 79
Private Confession 83
Public Confession 88
The Lord's Supper 94
An Arduous Liturgical Tradition 96
IV The Attack on Private Confession 102
Schmucker's Challenge 102
William Julius Mann's Response 110
Mann and the Lutheran Liturgical Tradition 114
Extreme Absolutionism 119
Forgiveness as Unconditional 125
A Public Order of Confession 130
V Emergence of an Opposing Tradition 134
The "Original Sin Moment" 134
Worship as Repentance 138
The Morphology of American Lutheranism at Mid-Twentieth Century 145
Worship as Ritual Participation in the Divine 149
The Attack on "Penitential Piety" 161
The Limitations of Eucharistic Piety 164
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Appendix I The Order for Public Confession Common Service Book (1917) 172
Appendix II The Order for Public Confession Service Book and Hymnal (1958) 179
Appendix III Invocation and Brief Order for Confession Service Book and Hymnal (1958) 185
Index of Names 187
