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Article: Baptism: back to the future.
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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The principal purpose of this article is to honor the rite for Holy Baptism in the Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW, 1978) and those on the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship (ILCW) and its Liturgical Texts Committee (LTC) (1) who prepared it, and to consider whether the baptismal rite met the goals set for it. A secondary and minor purpose is to compare the LBW rite with the baptismal rites in the two predecessor books of the LBW--the Service Book and Hymnal (SBH, 1958), which relegated the baptismal rite to its Occasional Services Book (OSB, 1962), and The Lutheran Hymnal (TLH, 1941) as found in its companion Volume The Lutheran Agenda (TLA, n.d.); and, also to a minor ...