Why: A Layman's Guide to the Liturgy

“Why do you Lutherans do that?” Every Lutheran pastor has heard the question (and some of them have asked it themselves). Most Lutherans don’t know as much about the liturgy as they would like to know—this book is a solution to this dilemma! Dr. Eckardt’s insightful“Why?” column ran for years in the pages of Gottesdienst. Now, Repristination Press has published a collection of these essays, together with several new “Whys?,” providing answers to 65 of those questions which begin, “Why...?”