
Lutheran Salvationists?
The Development Towards Registration as an Independent Faith Community in the Salvation Army in Norway with Focus on the Period 1975-2005
Gudrun Maria Lydholm(Autor*in)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Erschienen am 13. März 2017
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Hardcover
280 Seiten
978-1-4982-9789-9 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The idea of a state religion is seldom connected to religious freedom and liberal, modern, and democratic states. However, such a situation existed in Norway until 2012, when the Lutheran Church was the state church of Norway. A large majority of the population belonged to the church, even though the percentage in 2013 had fallen to well over seventy-five. The relationship between the church and minority religious movements demanded adaptation and compromises from the minority churches. The Salvation Army's enculturation and accommodation during its 128-year history in Norway illustrates such a situation. The book examines how The Salvation Army accommodated itself both doctrinally as well as practically to the situation of a dominant state church. The study reveals such a close affiliation of Salvationists to the Norwegian Church as a state institution, that it raises the question of whether a concept of civil religion was implicitly present in Salvationists' view of the state church and their own adherence to the church. This situation also raises the question of what constitutes a real church. The book indicates the tension between Lutheran and Salvationist ecclesiology as well as the influence from the Lutheran Church.
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Englisch
Verlagsort
Eugene
USA
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Gewebe-Einband
mit Schutzumschlag
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
Gewicht
563 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-9789-9 (9781498297899)
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Gudrun Maria Lydholm
Lutheran Salvationists?
The Development Towards Registration as an Independent Faith Community in The Salvation Army in Norway with Focus on the Period 1975-2005
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Gudrun Maria Lydholm (DTh, Oslo University) is a Salvation Army officer, having served in ministry in local corps (congregations) in Denmark and England, as an editor of the Danish Salvation Army publications and in leadership positions in Russia/CIS, Finland/Estonia and Norway, Iceland, and the Faroes for more than forty-three years. She now lives in active retirement in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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