The Lutheran Rosary

[LutheranScholar]

Yeah I wasn’t aware any branch of Lutheranism shy’ed away from the sign of the cross. I mean I get possibly shying away from the rosary. I mean the Small Catechism as I understand it explicitly requests the practice. As do the LCMS’s Lutheran Service Book and the ELCA’s Evangelical Lutheran Worship.

I’m not sure that any branch of Lutheranism does shy away. I know that there are plenty of Lutherans who won’t use the Sign of the Cross, just by going to service and seeing the ratio of who uses the Sign of the Cross and who doesn’t.

 

[Peter_J]

I’m not sure that any branch of Lutheranism does shy away. I know that there are plenty of Lutherans who won’t use the Sign of the Cross, just by going to service and seeing the ratio of who uses the Sign of the Cross and who doesn’t.

I was at a Lutheran catechism class/talk once, and the presenter mentioned that many Lutherans see the sign of the cross as “too RC” or whatever.

 

[LutheranScholar]

I was at a Lutheran catechism class/talk once, and the presenter mentioned that many Lutherans see the sign of the cross as “too RC” or whatever.

That’s what a lot of my Confessional Lutheran compatriots need to get over. We see a lot of things in the Confessions that hearken back to the early days of Christianity and making the Sign of the Cross is one of them. I suppose it’s simply a matter of Christian Freedom and adiaphora.