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Mission Union Of Sweden
The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ( – until 2003 'Swedish Mission Covenant'), founded in 1878, was a Swedish evangelical free church in the Radical Pietist tradition. It was the second-largest Protestant denomination in Sweden, after the national church, the Church of Sweden. In 2011, the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden completed a merger with two other denominations, resulting in the new denomination Uniting Church in Sweden (in Swedish: ). The denomination was a member of the Swedish Free Church Council, the International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches, and the World Communion of Reformed Churches. History The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden is a breakaway from the Lutheran Church of Sweden. As a movement it had roots in Radical Pietism and the spiritual awakenings of the 19th century such as ''Nyevangelism'' 'new Evangelism'. When Swedish Covenanters emigrated to the United States and Canada in the last half of the 19th century, they formed the Evangelica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immanuel Church, Stockholm
Immanuel Church () is church located in the city centre of Stockholm, Sweden. The church was designed by Sture Frölén and built in 1974 on a lot that used to house a tram depot, at the intersection of Birger Jarlsgatan and Kungstensgatan. The entire block, containing offices and a hotel, was built in the years 1970–1974 on behalf of the church. The church has been considered a fine example of 1970s modernist architecture and is of great historical value, according to the Stockholm City Museum. See also * List of churches in Stockholm This is a list of churches in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The list does not include chapels or minor churches. Churches in Stockholm County outside Stockholm municipality are listed in two separate lists: List of churches in Uppland and ... References External links * Churches in Stockholm Churches completed in 1974 Modernist architecture in Sweden Lutheran churches in Sweden Uniting Church in Sweden churches 1974 es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission Friends
The Mission Friends (Swedish: ) was an interdenominational Christian, mostly Pietist and Radical Pietist association in Sweden and among Swedish Americans (Swedish immigrants) in the United States, that eventually had an impact on several Protestant denominations and their missionary societies today, even outside of Lutheranism, the Swedish community, and the United States, eventually influencing other communities and forming new independent Radical Pietist, Baptist – especially Swedish Baptist – and later on Pentecostal and Charismatic free church denominations. History Background and Mission Friends in Sweden The Mission Friends had their origins in the spiritual reform movements founded by laymen within the Lutheran Church of Sweden from the mid-19th century onwards, particularly the teachings of Swedish Pietists Carl Olof Rosenius and Peter Fjellstedt. The Evangeliska fosterlands-stiftelsen (today the Swedish Evangelical Mission), founded in 1856 by Fjellstedt and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Baptists
Swedish Baptists (or Scandinavian Baptists) are Baptists that trace their origins to Radical Pietism (that disassociated from Lutheranism or partially originated from an adjacent non-Lutheran tradition), the Mission Friends movement, and the Pietist or Pietistic Lutheran tradition of Lutheranism. Denominations * Converge (United States), formerly the Baptist General Conference * Baptist General Conference of Canada *Baptist Union of Sweden *Evangelical Free Church in Sweden (Baptist) * Finnish Baptist movement * Swedish Baptist Union of Finland *Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church Individual churches * Central Church (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) *Swedish Baptist Church (Davenport, Iowa) The former Swedish Baptist Church is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The congregation was organized in 1883 in the city's Swedish neighborhood and included about 50 people. The building was originall ... See also * Conventicle Act (Sweden) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Ekman
Erik ''Jakob'' Ekman, called and in the Riksdag (8 January 1842 – 18 August 1915) was a Swedish priest, free church leader, and author. He was one of the founders of what became the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden and was a member of Parliament for a total of about seven years. He was the father of entrepreneur and member of Parliament . Biography Ekman was born in 1842 in Strömsbro, Gävleborg County, to vicar Lars Ekman and Katarina Charlotta Rydberg. He became a student at Uppsala University in 1862; during that time he found the Pietist revival movement through Carl Olof Rosenius' works and publication '' Pietisten''. He was ordained in 1864 and graduated as a pastor in 1871. In 1869, Ekman married Maria Lovisa Sjöstrom (1848–1927), daughter of provost Carl Fredrik Sjöström and Lovisa Catharina Norman. The couple had eleven children, including business owner and politician (1870), Jakob Efraim (1876), business leader (1877), Paul Emanuel (1879), Ester Kata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucharist
The Eucharist ( ; from , ), also called Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament or the Lord's Supper, is a Christianity, Christian Rite (Christianity), rite, considered a sacrament in most churches and an Ordinance (Christianity), ordinance in others. Christians believe that the rite was instituted by Jesus at the Last Supper, the night before Crucifixion of Jesus, his crucifixion, giving his Disciple (Christianity), disciples bread and wine. Passages in the New Testament state that he commanded them to "do this in memory of me" while referring to the bread as "my body" and the cup of wine as "the blood of my covenant, which is poured out for many". According to the synoptic Gospels, this was at a Passover meal. The elements of the Eucharist, sacramental bread, either Leavening agent, leavened or Unleavened bread, unleavened, and sacramental wine (non-alcoholic grape juice in some Protestantism, Protestant traditions, such as Methodism), are consecrated on an altar or a communio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augsburg Confession
The Augsburg Confession (), also known as the Augustan Confession or the Augustana from its Latin name, ''Confessio Augustana'', is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheranism, Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Protestant Reformation. The Augsburg Confession was written in both Early New High German, German and Ecclesiastical Latin, Latin and was presented by a number of German Imperial State, rulers and free-cities at the Diet of Augsburg on 25 June 1530. The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, had called on the Princes and Free Territories in Holy Roman Empire, Germany to explain their religious convictions in an attempt to restore religious and political unity in the Holy Roman Empire and rally support against the Ottoman wars in Europe, Ottoman invasion in the 16th-century Siege of Vienna (1529), Siege of Vienna. It is the fourth document contained in the Lutheran ''Book of Concord''. Background Philipp Melanch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietisten
("The Pietist") was a Swedish Christian monthly publication "for religious revival and edification", described by one scholar as "the theological journal of ''Nyevangelism''", and founded in January 1842 by the Scottish Methodist minister George Scott, who had immigrated to Sweden. The word , from the Latin word , meaning 'piety, godliness', refers to the Pietist movement. History Scott founded the journal with the goal of "practical edification without polemics" and was its editor for several months until he was forced to leave the country. During that time, he focused primarily on topics such as conversion stories and Christian living. After Scott's departure in April 1842, ''Pietisten'' was edited by preacher Carl Olof Rosenius, who was left to continue Scott's work; its tone changed somewhat as Rosenius took it in a Moravian Brethren-influenced direction, and began to include biblical exposition as well as occasional material from Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe, John Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Runeberg
Project Runeberg () is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. Patterned after Project Gutenberg, it was founded by Lars Aronsson and colleagues at Linköping University and began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 1992. As of 2015 it had accomplished digitization to provide graphical facsimiles of old works such as the ''Nordisk familjebok'', and had accomplished, in whole or in part, the text extractions and copyediting of these as well as esteemed Latin works and English translations from Nordic authors, and sheet music and other texts of cultural interest. Nature and history Project Runeberg is a digital cultural archive initiative patterned after the English-language cultural initiative, Project Gutenberg; it was founded by Lars Aronsson and colleagues at Linköping University, especially within the university group Lysator (see below), with the aim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svenskt Biografiskt Handlexikon
''Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon'' () is a compact Sweden, Swedish dictionary of biography first published in 1873–1876 by the physician and antiquarian Herman Hofberg (1823–1883). The second, updated edition was published in 1906, under the editorship of Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, and Olof Rubenson. The second edition, two volumes of all together 1,445 pages, contains 4,419 articles on families and individuals, "renowned Swedish men and women from the reformation until the present times", and more than 3,000 miniature portraits. See also * Svenskt biografiskt lexikon External links *Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon ', digitized facsimile, at the Project Runeberg website 1873 non-fiction books 1874 non-fiction books 1875 non-fiction books 1876 non-fiction books 1906 non-fiction books Swedish biographical dictionaries {{bio-dict-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' (, abbreviated ''SNL'') is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. It has several subdivisions, including the Norsk biografisk leksikon. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with up to 3.5 million unique visitors per month. Paper editions (1978–2007) The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1906–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales of paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atonement (Christian)
In Christianity, salvation (also called deliverance or redemption) is the saving of human beings from sin and its consequences—which include death and separation from God—by Christ's death and resurrection, and the justification entailed by this salvation. The idea of Jesus' death as an atonement for human sin was recorded in the Christian Bible, and was elaborated in Paul's epistles and in the Gospels. Paul saw the faithful redeemed by participation in Jesus' death and rising. Early Christians regarded themselves as partaking in a new covenant with God, open to both Jews and Gentiles, through the sacrificial death and subsequent exaltation of Jesus Christ. Early Christian beliefs of the person and sacrificial role of Jesus in human salvation were further elaborated by the Church Fathers, medieval writers and modern scholars in various atonement theories, such as the ransom theory, Christus Victor theory, recapitulation theory, satisfaction theory, penal substituti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Petter Waldenström
Paul Petter Waldenström (alternately spelled "Paul Peter") (20 July 1838 – 14 July 1917) was a Swedish lecturer, priest in the Church of Sweden and theologian, member of the Riksdag, and writer, who became the most prominent leader of the free church movement in late 19th-century Sweden. Biography Upbringing and education Waldenström was born in Luleå in northern Sweden, son of district physician and Margareta Magdalena Govenius. His siblings include physician , jurist and mayor . He moved to Uppsala in 1855, beginning his academic studies at Uppsala University two years later; he received his Ph.D. there in 1863, and was ordained a priest the following year. He had been employed as an adjunct in the (the secondary school in Växjö) already in 1862 and in 1864; when his doctorate qualified him for this, he received a lecturership in Christianity, Greek and Hebrew at the secondary school in Umeå. From 1874 until 1905 he was lecturer in the same subjects at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
