This collection of conference proceedings have been presented at the annual Institute of Liturgical Studies held Valparaiso University. The scholars and practitioners that present at the Institute come from both the Lutheran tradition and from the wider Church. It is our hope that that such presentations available here serve the Institute's mission "to renew the church's worship by nurturing and forming those who lead liturgy and song."

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Submissions from 2019

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Sharing the Love, Feeding the Hungry, Paul F. Bradshaw

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To Be the Body of Christ: Discipleship (Solidarity) and Eucharist, M. Shawn Copeland

Submissions from 2018

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Being the Body of Christ, Jessicah Krey Duckworth

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Faith Forming Faith, Faith Shaping Ministry, Paul E. Hoffman

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From Font to Meal to Service and Unity, Maxwell E. Johnson

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How Baptism Doesn't Form Us: Why We Seek Other Ways to Grow The Church, Craig Alan Satterlee

Submissions from 2017

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The Twentieth Century Reform of the Liturgy: Outcomes and Prospects, John F. Baldovin S.J.

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Where Do We Go From Here?, Lorraine Brugh

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Reforming Liturgy in a Re-Forming Age, Edward Foley

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The Work for the People Reforming at People's Church?, Timo-Matti Haapiainen

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The 95 Theses as a Template for Lasting Liturgical Reform, Timothy J. Wengert

Submissions from 2013

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Touch me and see: A resurrection of the body in the church?, Samuel Torvend

Submissions from 2009

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One Body, Washed, Frederick A. Niedner

Submissions from 2008

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The Work of the People as Public Work: The Social Significance of the Liturgy, William T. Cavanaugh

Submissions from 2007

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Healing, Faith, and Liturgy: A Theological Reflection upon the Church's Ministry of Healing in the Context of Worship, Christoffer H. Grundmann

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Rituals of Care: A Look at the Church's Ministry with the Sick, Lizette Larson-Miller

Submissions from 2006

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Debt, Imperialism, Eunuchs, and Contemporary Christian Worship, John Bell

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Media Art in Worship: The Potential for a New Liturgical Art, Its Pastoral and Theological Challenges, Eileen D. Crowley

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Jesus' Welcome Centers Our Ministry, Richard Fabian

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Worship and the Ministry of Reconciliation: Turning Walls into Tables, Mark S. Hanson

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Have We Come An This Way for Birth or Death?1 Liturgical Music as Prophetic Ministry, Kathleen Harmon

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On the Table-Servers: Ministry in the Assembly, Gordon W. Lathrop

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From Meal to Mission, J-Glenn Murray

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"Go in Peace. But Go!", Robert Rimbo

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Mass and Mission: Enacting God's Mission in the Christian Assembly Today, Thomas H. Schattauer

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Let the Servant Church Arise: Waters for the Thirsty, Supper for the Hungry, Rhoda Schuler

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The Priesthood of All Believers and Other Pious Myths, Timothy J. Wengert

Submissions from 2005

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Have We Come All This Way for Birth or Death? Liturgical Music as Prophetic Ministry, Kathleen Harmon

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On the Table-Servers: Ministry in the Assembly, Gordon Lathrop

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Institute of Liturgical Studies (History), Gerald Spice

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The Priesthood of All Believers and Other Pious Myths, Timothy Wengert

Submissions from 2004

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Media Art in Worship: The Potential for a New Liturgical Art, Its Pastoral and Theological Challenges, Eileen D. Crowley

Submissions from 2003

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A Brook Runs through It: Fresh Water from the Bach for Today's Thirsty Church, Mark P. Bangert

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"But we had hoped ... ": The Road We've Traveled; the Road that Lies Ahead, Eleanor Bernstein

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Whose Context Is It Anyway?, Lorraine S. Brugh

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The Bible and the Liturgical Movement: Scripture as a Voice in the Church, Not a Book Faxed to It, Robert Farrar Capon

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The Bible as One Story: Images as the Holy Spirit's Device for Making Scripture God's Word Written, Robert Farrar Capon

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Inculturation of Worship: Forty Years of Progress and Tradition, Anscar J. Chupungco

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Liturgical Inculturation: The Future that Awaits Us, Anscar J. Chupungco

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Inculturation of Worship: Forty Years of Progress and Tradition, Anscar J. Chupungco

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Liturgical Inculturation: The Future That Awaits Us, Anscar J. Chupungco

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A Word Fitly Spoken, Michael Cobbler

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Leading the Assembly Is Pastoral, Virgil C. Funk

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The Grace of Leading the Assembly, Gabe Huck

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Salis est: Ecumenical Catalyst or Narrow Reductionism?, Maxwell E. Johnson

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"Let us pray with confidence": Leaders of the Assembly Prepare, Gordon W. Lathrop

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The Message Is from God, Frederick A. Niedner Jr.

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“WE ARE SATISFIED!” - A Sermon for the Commemoration of St Philip, Craig Satterlee

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The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and Lutheran Book of Worship: What Was Renewed?, Frank C. Senn

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"The whole Bible painted in our houses": Visual Narrative and Religious Polemic in Early Lutheran Art, Samuel Torvend

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Enough, Already-But Perhaps Not Yet: Liturgy, Church Unity, and Eschatology, David G. Truemper

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Leaders Pray with the Assembly, E Louise Williams

Submissions from 1999

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Liturgical Traffic in Culture: Gridlock, Beginning Drivers, Detours, and DUI, Mark P. Bangert

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It's about Time: Practices of Rest and Worship in Church and Culture, Dorothy C. Bass

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Speaking of Liturgy: Education and Fonnation through and for Worship, Dorothy C. Bass

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Holy Communion Is an Artifact of the Future, Walter R. Bouman

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Liturgy and Ecumenism: What Next?, Eugene L. Brand

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You Have to Wear Something, Susan R. Briehl

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Asking New and Old Questions As We Remember the Future, Marva J. Dawn

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Concluding Address: Culture and Worship, Once More, Marva J. Dawn

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Culture: Around, Against, In the Church's Worship, Marva J. Dawn

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On Baptism and the Spirit: The Ethical Significance of the Marks of the Church, Vigen Guroian

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Baptismal "Spirituality" in the Early Church and Its Implications for the Church Today, Maxwell E. Johnson

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"Hearers of the Word": Luke's Gospel as Sacramental Formation for a Liturgical Community, Arthur A. Just Jr.

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The Freedom of the Christian for Culture, Timothy Lull

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What Are We Doing When We Pray?, Jorgen Moltmann

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Fonned and Refonned: What God Effects through the Liturgical Assembly of Christians, Paul R. Nelson

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Transformed and Transforming: What God Effects through the Presence of Christians in the World, Paul R. Nelson

Submissions from 1996

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Grace Upon Grace: living Water, Hans Boehringer

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A Midrash On Water, Joseph A. Edelheit

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Sound Theology: The Risk of Audition, Ed Foley

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What's Hecuba to Him, or He to Hecuba?, Paul W.F. Harms

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What Gets Changed? Sam Gets Changed?, Gabe Huck

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The Cost of Making Disciples, Walter Huffman

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The Melody of Living Water: Music Ministry and Holy Baptism, Jan Michael Joncas

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Christianity's Boundary-Making Bath: The New Testament Meaning of Baptism, the Sacrament of Unity, Edgar Krentz

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Living Word: Sharper Than Any Two-Edged Sword, Edgar Krentz

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The Lord's Banquet: Resources, Problems and Perspectives from the New Testament, Edgar Krentz

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Doing the Holy Things: Baptism and Vocation, Gordon Lathrop

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Table of Remembrance, David N. Power O.M.I.

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Dying and Rising As We Grow Up: Lifelong Baptismal Formation, Elaine Ramshaw

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The Language of the Psalter and Sunday Worship, Gail Ramshaw

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The Church Musician as Steward of the Mysteries, Carl Schalk

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The Witness of the Worshiping Community, Frank C. Senn

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The Word Becomes Flesh, Louise Williams

Submissions from 1992

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Is Dialogue Hazardous to Ecumenism?, Robert W. Bertram

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Like WheatT Arising Green: How the Church Grows and Thrives, Walter R. Bouman

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And They Danced, David H. Kehret and John Steven Paul

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Liturgy at Ground Level, Martin A. Seltz

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Fear and Faith In the Fields of Our Hearts, David G. Truemper

Submissions from 1991

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Visible Words: The Image Is the Message, Sandra Essex

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Celebrants or Celebrities, Worship or Suicide, David Kocka O.F.M.

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Holy Things: Foundations for Liturgical Theology, Gordon Lathrop

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Good Stuff to Read This Year, Kathleen R. Mullen

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It Does Matter What You Do: How Practical Choices Reflect Theology, John O. Nelson

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Preaching at Weddings and Funerals, Jerald W. Pipping

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Lutheran Theology and Liturgical Acculturation, Karen M. Ward

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Assisting Ministers: Enlisting, Training, and Leaming from the Diversity of Gifts, Donald H. Williams

Submissions from 1989

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Arts and the Liturgy: With Countless Gifts of love, Mark P. Bangert

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Identity and Witness: Liturgy and the Mission of the Church, Walter R. Bouman