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“While it is true that Luther classed liturgical ceremonies as things indifferent (adiaphora), Pelikan points out that this did not mean, as Brilioth took it to mean, that Luther himself was indifferent to liturgy and liturgical forms.[80] Luther simply meant that precise liturgical forms and ceremonies had not been prescribed in detail in the gospel. Christ’s example is not binding on us, except by express command. Nevertheless, in his discourse on ceremonies (1520) with reference to Psalm 14, Luther pointed out that there is no public worship without forms. Liturgical forms should be used as a framework for the proclamation of the gospel.”
― Bryan Spinks, Luther's Liturgical Criteria and His Reform of the Canon of the Mass

“However, the centrality and prominence given to the words should not be interpreted, as Bouyer suggests, as being a pronounced medieval idea of consecration by recitation of the words, nor primarily as an expression of Luther’s doctrine of the presence, commonly termed ‘consubstantiation’.”
― Bryan Spinks, Luther's Liturgical Criteria and His Reform of the Canon of the Mass

“This do’ did not refer to the whole supper, and it did not even include the Jewish meal berakoth which recent liturgists have insisted underlies the eucharistic prayer.[157] The command referred not to Jewish traditions, but to the newness of his action, which was the act of eating and drinking the bread and wine which he had declared to be his body and blood.”
― Bryan Spinks, Luther's Liturgical Criteria and His Reform of the Canon of the Mass