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This thesis examines the Climate Mass held in Stockholm Cathedral in September 2023. The aim is to understand the theology of the Climate Mass and how it terms and theologically processes and interpret the climate crisis in a Swedish church sermon. The thesis also investigates how the context matter for theology in eco-theological preaching in the Church of Sweden. Using an eco-theological framewo
The main purpose of this study is to analyse how the inherent plurality in the Lutheran theological tradition is shown in the Church of Sweden’s interpretation of the sacrament of baptism. Since most recent studies on the theology of baptism have focuses on lived theology, this study is instead focused on normative and formal theology. In this study have analysed the baptismal motifs in two curren
The aim of this study is to examine how the Church of Sweden’s bishops' letters on climate and deaconry, as well as Pope Francis encyclical Fratelli tutti, articulate the church’s social and political responsibility in contemporary society. Through a qualitative content analysis, the study examines how the documents address themes of creation and climate responsibility, economic justice, and s
This article explores Christian education and learning in the Church of Sweden and the Church of Norway today. Given the impact of major changes in society and in school curricula over the last fifty years, the conditions of this work are changing. What major challenges are identified today? How have these two churches responded to the new circumstances? The Church of Norway has developed a system
The episcopate has been much debated in the twentieth century, both in the Church of Sweden and ecumenically. The purpose of the thesis is to study how it has been discussed within the Church of Sweden, using the priest and reformer Gunnar Rosendal (1897?1988) as point of departure. Methodologically speaking, a single individual is studied in order to shed light on a broad historical and ideologic
The Effect of the Nuremberg Laws on impediments of marriage in the Church of Sweden, 1935–1945 From 1935 to the end of the Second World War, the Nuremberg Laws were considered by the clergy of the Church of Sweden in its state function of considering impediments of marriage for German citizens. As a civil authority, the Church of Sweden was responsible for all such decisions until 1991. In the 193
The aim of this thesis is to analyse how sex and gender have been constructed within the context of the Swedish Lutheran Church 1954-1985. The studied texts mainly consist of Christian pastoral work primarily dealing with sexuality and marriage. But the material also includes investigations within this field published by the Swedish state (SOU), and newspaper articles where marriage and sexuality
Ny nordisk psalmproduktion i ett komparativt perspektiv
