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Lutheran Salvationists?
Wipf and Stock
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9781498297899
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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.
- | Author: Gudrun Maria Lydholm, Roger Green
- | Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- | Publication Date: Mar 13, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 282 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
- | ISBN-10: 1498297897
- | ISBN-13: 9781498297899
- Author:
- Gudrun Maria Lydholm, Roger Green
- Publisher:
- Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date:
- Mar 13, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 282 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/Religion
- ISBN-10:
- 1498297897
- ISBN-13:
- 9781498297899