Swedish and American Lutherans Negotiate Joining the World Council
This article investigates how Nordic and American Lutherans reached an understanding over the formation of a future World Council of Churches. During the inter-war period different attitudes towards a nascent ecumenical movement developed on each side of the Atlantic. With an increasing recognition...
| Published in: | Lutheran quarterly |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Johns Hopkins University Press
2021
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Lutheran quarterly
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Pages: 401-421 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church KDJ Ecumenism |
| Further subjects: | B
Sylvester Michelfelder
B Twentieth Century B Ecumenism B Lutheranism B America B Erling Eidem B Scandinavia |
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| Summary: | This article investigates how Nordic and American Lutherans reached an understanding over the formation of a future World Council of Churches. During the inter-war period different attitudes towards a nascent ecumenical movement developed on each side of the Atlantic. With an increasing recognition of the need to develop inter-Christian co-operative bodies, leading Nordic Lutherans tended not to fully understand the cautious attitudes expressed by American Lutherans. A struggle arose over the question of so-called confessional representation in a future World Council. It was not possible to reach an understanding until these group were able to convene after the end of WWII. It is the argument of this article that these discussions also constituted a turning-point at which a deeper knowledge of the circumstances of the respective Lutheran churches emerged. |
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| ISSN: | 2470-5616 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Lutheran quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/lut.2021.0092 |