Download e-book for kindle: Lutheran Salvationists?: The Development Towards by Gudrun Maria Lydholm,John Larsson,Roger Green

By Gudrun Maria Lydholm,John Larsson,Roger Green

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the assumption of a country faith is seldom attached to spiritual freedom and liberal, smooth, and democratic states. even though, this type of state of affairs existed in Norway until eventually 2012, whilst the Lutheran Church was once the country church of Norway. a wide majority of the inhabitants belonged to the church, even supposing the proportion in 2013 had fallen to good over seventy-five. the connection among the church and minority spiritual routine demanded edition and compromises from the minority church buildings. The Salvation Army's enculturation and lodging in the course of its 128-year historical past in Norway illustrates the sort of state of affairs. The publication examines how The Salvation military accommodated itself either doctrinally in addition to virtually to the placement of a dominant country church. The learn finds this sort of shut association of Salvationists to the Norwegian Church as a nation establishment, that it increases the query of no matter if an idea of civil faith was once implicitly found in Salvationists' view of the nation church and their very own adherence to the church. this case additionally increases the query of what constitutes a true church. The ebook shows the stress among Lutheran and Salvationist ecclesiology in addition to the impact from the Lutheran Church.

"This is an illuminating research into the heritage of cultural model by way of The Salvation military inside of Norwegian society. Such lodging, partially because of a view of the country church as an expression of civil faith, justified twin club of 'Lutheran Salvationists.' Gudrun Lydholm discloses how an expanding church/state contrast inside of Norwegian society resulted in inherent tensions, because the military sought to advance an ecclesial id self sufficient of the Church of Norway throughout the interval 1975-2005."
--R. David Rightmire, PhD, Professor of Biblical and Theological experiences, Asbury University

"Working in a culturally homogeneous kingdom with a countrywide church places a social revival flow like Salvation military stressed. At one hand, it needs to enculturate itself within the nationwide tradition. on the different hand, it can't prove as simply one other a part of that tradition. utilizing the new improvement in Norway as a try case, Lydholm tells the attention-grabbing tale of the way salvationists focus on this problem in Nordic Countries."
--Hans Raun Iversen, Director of Church examine, collage of Copenhagen

Gudrun Maria Lydholm (DTh, Oslo collage) is a Salvation military officer, having served in ministry in neighborhood corps (congregations) in Denmark and England, as an editor of the Danish Salvation military courses and in management positions in Russia/CIS, Finland/Estonia and Norway, Iceland, and the Faroes for greater than forty-three years. She now lives in energetic retirement in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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