Liturgy as Embodied Informal Education for Identity Re-formation: Luther’s 1523 and 1526 Liturgical Reforms

Abstract

Martin Luther’s 1523 and 1526 reforms of the Catholic liturgy holistically contributed to the re-formation of the spiritual identities of believers at Wittenberg in three ways: (1) Reconstructed their living inheritance as the worshipping people of God; (2) Clarified the embodied biblical narrative of justification by faith in the gospel; and (3) Explicated their role as the local and global body under Christ the Head, reconnecting them to their heritage of witness in the world.