By Oloph Bexell

ISBN-10: 0802868487

ISBN-13: 9780802868480

The Church of Sweden is the biggest Lutheran church physique on the planet, with 6.5 million individuals that signify approximately 70% of the Swedish inhabitants. The which means of Christian Liturgy illuminates and explains the adjustments that experience happened within the liturgy of the Church of Sweden from 1980 to 2000. within the technique, this quantity asks a couple of questions of significant significance not just inside Sweden but additionally for Christian church buildings within the English-speaking international, together with:
  • How does participation in a liturgy clarify what "church" is about?
  • What does liturgical participation say approximately who or what God is and in regards to the community's come upon with God?
  • How have church buildings lived with the alterations and renewals brought within the 20th century?
  • How does the church construction form worshipers' rules of God and of church?

Contributors:
Torbjörn Axner
Oloph Bexell
Sven-Erik Brodd, Gordon W. Lathrop
Karin Oljelund
Boel Hössjer Sundman
Gunnar Weman

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