Impressions of the Church of Sweden: liberal and catholic with nuances of Lutheranism
The Church of Sweden is difficult to describe or to characterise, whether as a Folk Church, a national church, as catholic or liberal, or as, in some sense, Lutheran. This article refers to aspects of its complex relations with the Roman Catholic Church and with Lutheranism at large. The author dete...
| Published in: | International journal for the study of the Christian church |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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International journal for the study of the Christian church
Year: 2017, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 133-155 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church KDJ Ecumenism RB Church office; congregation |
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Philippine Independent Church
B Catholicity B Church of Sweden B ecumenical asymmetry B Folk Churches B Church of England B Old Catholic Church B Episcopal Church (TEC) B Roman Catholic Church B Lutheranism B Liturgy B Pope John Paul II B St Birgitta of Sweden B sexuality and gender B Liberalism B Sacraments |
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| Summary: | The Church of Sweden is difficult to describe or to characterise, whether as a Folk Church, a national church, as catholic or liberal, or as, in some sense, Lutheran. This article refers to aspects of its complex relations with the Roman Catholic Church and with Lutheranism at large. The author detects, from ecumenical agreement and practice, an incipient new communion of churches, based on a common claim to be catholic and also to be open to developments in society. This group includes the Church of Sweden, the Church of England, the Episcopal Church in the USA, the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Philippine Independent Church, all of which are in communion with each other. The author's presentation is set out in relation to the Church of Sweden's liturgical and sacramental life, its church-state relations, and in an account of the rather asymmetrical shape of ecumenism in Sweden, in all of which the question of gender plays a role. |
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| ISSN: | 1747-0234 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for the study of the Christian church
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2017.1413069 |