Worship as Repentance: Lutheran Liturgical Traditions and Catholic Consensus

by Walter Sundberg

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2012

Overview

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.

Product Details

• Title: Worship as Repentance: Lutheran Liturgical Traditions and Catholic Consensus
• Author: Walter Sundberg
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Lutheran Church › Liturgy; Liturgics; Public worship › History of doctrines
• ISBNs: 9780802867322, 0802867324
• Resource ID: LLS:WRSHPSCTHCNSNSS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:11:05Z

About Walter Sundberg

Walter Sundberg is professor of church history at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, an ordained Lutheran pastor, and the author (with Roy A. Harrisville) of The Bible in Modern Culture: Baruch Spinoza to Brevard Childs.