Lutheran Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament?

I have been searching for this article for some time and have recently re-discovered it : the controversy regarding the practice of Eucharistic devotion and adoration is not limited to the debate between Catholic theology-praxis and Calvinists within Anglicanism. The meaning of the Real Presence and the reality of the Objective Presence have, perhaps, been most hotly debated between adherents of the Lutheran Reformation and those of the Calvinist Reform. Case in point...

'The Electorate of Brandenburg, the area around Berlin that later became the nucleus of Prussia, and which still later was to unify Germany in 1871, accepted the Lutheran Reformation in 1540. Its Elector, Joachim II (1535-1571) in his later years expressed an intense dislike of 'Calvinist blasphemy,' particularly as regards the Eucharistic Presence (and Church ceremonies and vestments), and in 1562 he ordered a new rite, termed the OSTENSIO (or 'showing') to be introduced into the Eucharist as an anti-Calvinist statement. In it, the celebrant, after reciting the Words of Institution (in the course of which, in accordance with pre-Reformation Catholic practice [a practice of which Luther approved, but which largely disappeared in Lutheranism by the mid-17th-Century], the Host and the Chalice were elevated separately for the adoration of the people after the consecration of each one), would turn towards the congregation and, holding the consecrated elements aloft together, would proclaim: 'See, dear Christians, this is the true Body of Christ given for us, and the true Blood of Christ shed for us.' The rite was considered 'popish idolatry' by Calvinists - and, to be fair, the retention of the Elevations during the Words of Institution was a frequent example adduced by some Church of England divines, Calvinist and 'high-church' alike, of the defective and incompletely reformed nature of Lutheran liturgical practice. If the Orthodox demur at transubstantiation, the Lutherans all rejected it, then as now. What think the 'Reformed Catholics?' Are these practices 'popish idolatry' or are they not?'

-Dr William J. Tighe, Associate Professor of History at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Post-Tractarian Anglican Catholics, in this case, would clearly seem to agree with the Lutheran Reformation of Brandenburg.