Historical Rites of the Evangelical Tradition

The Order of Divine Service in the Congregation

The Ordenung Gottis Diensts Ynn Der Gemeyne (“Order of Divine Service in the Congregation,” LW 53, 9-14) of 1523. Luther's preeminent liturgical formula, which he used to craft two example liturgies in Latin and German: The Formula Missae and the Deutsche Messe.

The Saxon Agenda

The most influential liturgical form of the German tradition.

The Dano-Norwegian Rite

The official Liturgy of the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway.

The Slovak Rite

The rite approved by the Wittenberg Theologians and tailored by Jiří Třanovský.

The First American Evangelical Liturgy

Muhlehnberg's vision, which ostensibly led to the creation of The Common Service of 1888.

The Episcopal Book of Common Prayer

1789 version was based in large part on the 1662 version of the Church of England in use at the time (itself in a pedigree from the 1559 Elizabethan version of the Prayerbook). The Book of Common Prayer had its origins the the liturgical reforms of Thomas Cranmer, who produced the first version in 1549 in what was a historically conservative revision of the Sarum Mass. The subsequent revision of the prayerbook under King Edward in 1552 radically revised the text in a decidedly Reformed direction.

The Kirchen Agende Rite

The 1856 Rite that attended the LCMS Kirchen-Gesangbuch.

The Wisconsin Agende

The 1896 Rite that attended the 1870/2 Evang.-Lutherische Gesangbuch.

The Lutheran Hymnary

The revision of the Dano-Norwegian Rite promulgated in the circles of the Norwegian Synod.

The Cithara Sanctorum of the Slovak Synod

The development of the Slovak Rite in the United States.