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Lutheran Salvationists?: The Development Towards Registration as an Independent Faith Community in the Salvation Army in Norway with Focus on t

Lutheran Salvationists?: The Development Towards Registration as an Independent Faith Community in the Salvation Army in Norway with Focus on t

Lydholm, Gudrun Maria
Larsson, John
Green, Roger

Hardcover

General Christianity

Publisher Price: $57.00

ISBN10: 1498297897
ISBN13: 9781498297899
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: Mar 13 2017
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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