Dissenters in Sweden

In the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden, which is a kind of nationalized Episcopal Church in its enthusiasm for innovations and its dislike of those who won't move with the times,  The Church Coalition for Bible and Confession is "an umbrella organisation for those within the Church of Sweden who wish to work together to ensure that the Bible and the Confessional Documents should be the only guiding principle within the Church."

The chairman, Yngve Kalin, just wrote to tell me about a set of five papers on the Ministry of the Church (it's a pdf file) some of the coalition's members gave at a conference in London in mid-February, now posted on the group's website. The papers are in English, and begin with "Captive to Ceasar: Church Politics in Sweden in the 20th Century" and end with "Faith of the Fathers, the Faith for the Future: the Faith Today?"

Those of you interested in northern European Christianity may want to look at some of the articles of our contributing editor William Tighe, including Swedish Dissent, an interview with Dag Sandahl, the author of the last paper; The Pilgrim Church, an address given to a conservative group from the Church of Sweden's General Synod; Latvia Revived, an interview with Latvian Lutheran archbishop Janis Vanags; Out On a Limb in Norway, an interview with the Norwegian theologian Roald Flemestad; and Swedes Adrift.