Healing Rites and the Transformation of Life: Observations and Insights from within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Evangelical Lutheran Worship, pew edition (Minneapolis; Augsburg Fortress, 2006), 271. Martin Luther, “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520),” Luther's Works, Vol. 36, ed. Abdel Ross Wentz (Philadelphia; Fortress Press, 1959), 121–123; and “To Severin Schulze (June 1, 1545),” Luther: Letter of Spiritual Counsel, ed. and trans. Theodore G. Tappert (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1955), 52. Occasional Services: A companion to Lutheran Book of Worship (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House; Philadelphia: Board of Publication, Lutheran Church in America, 1982). The Occasional Services from the Service Book and Hymnal (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1962), 33. Paul R. Nelson, “Healing Rites for Serious Chronic Illness in the North American Cultural Context,” in Baptism, Rites of Passage, and Culture, ed. S. Anita Stauffer (Geneva: Lutheran World Federation, 1998), 98–100. Nelson, “Healing Rites,” 99. ELW, pew edition, 276–78. The ELW rite was preceded by a provisional rite for healing in Life Passages: Marriage, Healing, and Funeral, Renewing Worship 4 (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2002), 23–39. Evangelical Lutheran Worship, leaders' edition (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006), 42. ELW, pew edition, 273. Ibid., 276. ELW, leaders' edition, 661–662. ELW, pew edition, 277. Life Passages, 24. Gordon Lathrop, “Baptismal Ordo and Rites of Passage in the Church,” Baptism, Rites of Passage, and Culture, ed. S. Anita Stauffer (Geneva: Lutheran World Federation, 1998), 45. ELW, pew edition, 273. Ibid., 276. ELW, leaders' edition, 42. ELW, pew edition, 277. Ibid., 276. Occasional Services (1982), 99. Nelson, “Healing Rites,” 102; for the comparison to older rites, see pp. 97–99, 102. Dietrich Bonfhoeffer, Spiritual Care, trans. Jay C. Rochelle (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985), 56. Anscar J. Chupungco,“Baptism, Marriage, Healing, and Funerals: Principles and Criteria for Inculturation,” Baptism, Rites of Passage, and Culture, ed. S. Anita Stauffer (Geneva: Lutheran World Federation, 1998), 65. Additional informationNotes on contributorsThomas H. SchattauerThomas H. Schattauer is Professor of Liturgics and Dean of the chapel atWartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. He is contributing editor ofInside Out: Worship in an Age of Mission,published by Fortress Press.