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Christian Initiation: Development, Dismemberment, Reintegration, Geoffrey Wainwright
Christian Initiation: Development, Dismemberment, Reintegration, Geoffrey Wainwright
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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Worshipers tend to assume that the patterns of worship that they know have been practiced since time immemorial. A little familiarity with liturgical history soon reveals that that is not in fact the case. You in your churches, with your new Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), have inevitably been introduced to some liturgical history as you had to come to terms with new things that were really old things.
Made, Not Born: The Church As Baptismal, Frank Quinn
Made, Not Born: The Church As Baptismal, Frank Quinn
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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An editorial in a recent issue of Time magazine notes that the real failures of the past decade have been future planners. Changing scripture slightly, the editorial states: The decade just ended left behind a great many fresh reminders of why prophets have always had difficulty winning honor on their own turf. 1 The decade just ended differed radically from the social, political and economic predictions made for it. The consequence of such failure is that only the fool plays the prophet in the 1980's. So, taking a lesson from the secular sphere, you will understand why I will …
Christian Initiation: Ethics And Eschatology, Robert W. Jensen
Christian Initiation: Ethics And Eschatology, Robert W. Jensen
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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I did not choose the three terms of my assignment: "initiation", "ethics" and "eschatology." It would take a degree of arrogance that I do not have, to select the universe for one's subject in this fashion. While I did not choose them, I am fortunate in your committee having chosen them. For in fact, as it turns out, the three terms nestle beautifully together and define a field of reflection that I have found enjoyable. Baptism is initiation into the Christian church, an ethical community. And baptism is initiation into the kingdom of God, the eschatological community. And it …
On Taking One's Daily Dip In The Font: Baptismal Piety, John H. Tietjen
On Taking One's Daily Dip In The Font: Baptismal Piety, John H. Tietjen
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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The wife of a faculty colleague of mine has a serious problem with hip deterioration. Daily she goes to the local "Y" for a swim. For her a pool plunge is a matter of life and health. Most baptismal fonts are much too small for such a daily dip. At best they might serve as a bath for robin redbreast who like all birds knows how to bathe in the shallowest of pools. Whether as a pool plunge or as a sprinkling bath, a daily dip in baptism's font is a matter of spiritual life and health. Such a …
Baptism, Confirmation And First Communion: Christian Initiation In The Contemporary Church, Hans Boehringer
Baptism, Confirmation And First Communion: Christian Initiation In The Contemporary Church, Hans Boehringer
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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Made, Not Born, is the title of a remarkable book produced by the remarkable program of liturgical studies conducted at the University of Notre Dame, and also the title of Frank Quinn's keynote address yesterday. The correspondence of the two titles is surely no accident. The notion that Christians are made and not born may well come as a shock not only to Lutherans but to all those Christians that prize the Reformation emphasis on the priority of grace. We have for so long insisted on the gift character of baptism that such a title jars. A Christian is …
Sermon At The Holy Communion, Frederick A. Niedner Jr.
Sermon At The Holy Communion, Frederick A. Niedner Jr.
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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I have been told that when you are dying of thirst, you crave salt--not water, but salt. Your last efforts are spent seeking desperately that very thing which will hasten your end. So it is, I fear, with all of our terrible thirsts. The alcoholic, sick and frightened to death of his thirst, finds a temporary peace only in one more day and one more night of stupor. The adulterer, so very ashamed and so strangely alone, finds a momentary solace only in the forgetfulness of just one more forbidden embrace.
The Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue: The Year 1980, Avery Dullee
The Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue: The Year 1980, Avery Dullee
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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Let me begin on a somewhat personal note. In the days when I grew up in New York and New England, I seem to have been surrounded by Protestants of many species, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregationalist, and others. Occasionally I ran into a Roman Catholic, but almost no one I knew was a Lutheran. Luther for me was a figure in history books. Only in the Navy during World War II did I come to know a Lutheran really well, and since he was a devout student of the Bible and of theology, the two of us had an …
Toward The Renewal Of Christian Initiation In The Parish, Eugene L. Brand
Toward The Renewal Of Christian Initiation In The Parish, Eugene L. Brand
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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The brochure for this year's Institute contained the arresting sentence: "To discuss the question of Christian initiation is, finally, to inquire after the very nature of the church: the issue is of vast ecclesiological significance." The renewed and growing interest in Christian initiation is prompted by a new vision of the church.
Homily At The Opening Service, George W. Hoyer
Homily At The Opening Service, George W. Hoyer
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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"No other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, Jesus Christ." It is a measure of the experience of faith when we echo Thomas, "My Lord and my God." It is a measure of the experience of faith when we acknowledge "The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;" when we exclaim, "This is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes"; when we say with Thomas, "My Lord and my God!"