Anyone know a good book on the history of the Lutheran liturgy? Not just in America, but from Luther to modern iterations: medieval roots, development in non-German countries, various trajectories in America: Muhlenberg and his successors, Walther and his, et al., etc.?
Thank ye.
Simul Jocular et Peccator 
Its quite old (Fortress Press 1947) but the old Gold Standard was The Lutheran Liturgy by Luther Reed.
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I found that on Google images — almost used that in the post! Thanks.
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A more lay-friendly book is Heaven on Earth by Arthur Just from Concordia
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Thanks!
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It’s been a while since I read it so I may be wrong, but I think Just’s book focuses mainly on the development of the liturgy in the early church and (somewhat) in midieval times and how that informs our understanding/experience of the liturgy today. I don’t think he does a lot with tracing particular Lutheran “streams” of liturgical development in Europe and the U.S.
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Thanks.
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Steve, you’re right I think. But he does trace what Lutherans do to the liturgy’s early history, which is why I could apply.
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Rick Stuckwisch is working on a book based on his dissertation that is mostly American Lutheran, but does pay a great deal of attention to the tradition before. He would be the person to ask.
http://sword-in-hat.blogspot.com/search?q=chapters
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