Editing Exorcism (section)

===Lutheran Churches===
From the 16th century onward, [[Lutheran]] pastoral handbooks describe the primary symptoms of demonic possession to be knowledge of secret things, knowledge of languages one has never learned, and supernatural strength.<ref name="Mayes"/> Before conducting a major exorcism, Lutheran liturgical texts state that a physician be consulted in order to rule out any medical or psychiatric illness.<ref name="Mayes"/> The rite of exorcism centers chiefly around driving out demons "with prayers and contempt" and includes the [[Apostles' Creed]] and the [[Lord's Prayer]].<ref name="Mayes">{{cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/lutherantheology.demonpossession.html|title=Quotes from Lutheran Pastoral Handbooks on the Topic of Demon Possession|last=Mayes|first=Benjamin|language=en|access-date=22 April 2018|archive-date=27 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827205734/http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/lutherantheology.demonpossession.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Baptism]]al liturgies in Lutheran Churches include a [[minor exorcism]].<ref name="Wagner2012">{{cite book|last=Wagner|first=C. Peter|title=Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare|date=16 October 2012|publisher=Destiny Image, Incorporated|language=en|isbn=9780768487916|page=106|quote=A brief exorcism found its way into early Lutheran baptismal services and an exorcism prayer formula is recorded in the ''First Prayer Book'' of Edward VI (1549).}}</ref><ref name="KolbTrueman2017">{{cite book|last1=Kolb|first1=Robert|last2=Trueman|first2=Carl R.|title=Between Wittenberg and Geneva: Lutheran and Reformed Theology in Conversation|date=17 October 2017|publisher=Baker Publishing Group|language=en|isbn=9781493411450|page=162|quote=This liturgy retained the minor exorcism (a formal renunciation of the devil's works and ways), which later in the sixteenth century became an issue dividing Lutherans and Calvinists.}}</ref>