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61- BOOK REVIEW SECTION (All Inquiries and Correspondence
BOOK REVIEW SECTION (All inquiries and correspondence pertaining to the reviewing of books should be addressed to: Karen Robinson, PNEUMA Book Review Editor, Library, Oral Roberts University, 7777 South Lewis, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74171). Andreas Aarflot, Hans Nielsen Hauge: His Life and Message (Minneapolis:Augsburg Publishing House, 1979). Reviewed by Donald Dean Smeeton. This book is a cistern from which one might draw many kinds of water, but all are portable. The person os Norwegian descent will find material to satisfy his thirst for his spiritual roots. The historian of theology will taste an often-needed balance to the superficial judgment that eighteenth century Lutheranism was only rationalistic orthodoxy. The advocate of lay leadership will relish this practical paradigm of the lay activist and, of course, the person with pneumatological interests will drink deeply from the creative thinking and courageous life of this preacher-theologian. Although Hans Nielsen Hauge is not widely known outside Scandi- navia, he was the most important revivalist-not in the pejorative sense of an evangelist, but in the truer sense of one who provokes spiritual awakenings-in the history of Norwegian Christianity. Hauge dated his commitment to ministry to a profound, estatic experience which Aarflot suggests "had the character of a baptism in the Spirit as was known later in the Pentecostal movement" (p. 22). Although without formal theological training, Hauge synthesized liturgical Lutheranism and pietistic practice with limited accommoda- tions to the liberation of the Enlightenment. Even if one doubts that Hauge was influenced by the Enlightenment to the extent indicated by Aarflot, Hauge definitely combined the tenets of orthodox theology with the flame of spiritual fire. -
The Origin, Development, and History of the Norwegian Seventh-Day Adventist Church from the 1840S to 1889" (2010)
Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University Dissertations Graduate Research 2010 The Origin, Development, and History of the Norwegian Seventh- day Adventist Church from the 1840s to 1889 Bjorgvin Martin Hjelvik Snorrason Andrews University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/dissertations Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, and the History of Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Snorrason, Bjorgvin Martin Hjelvik, "The Origin, Development, and History of the Norwegian Seventh-day Adventist Church from the 1840s to 1889" (2010). Dissertations. 144. https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/dissertations/144 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Research at Digital Commons @ Andrews University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Andrews University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thank you for your interest in the Andrews University Digital Library of Dissertations and Theses. Please honor the copyright of this document by not duplicating or distributing additional copies in any form without the author’s express written permission. Thanks for your cooperation. ABSTRACT THE ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT, AND HISTORY OF THE NORWEGIAN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH FROM THE 1840s TO 1887 by Bjorgvin Martin Hjelvik Snorrason Adviser: Jerry Moon ABSTRACT OF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH Dissertation Andrews University Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary Title: THE ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT, AND HISTORY OF THE NORWEGIAN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH FROM THE 1840s TO 1887 Name of researcher: Bjorgvin Martin Hjelvik Snorrason Name and degree of faculty adviser: Jerry Moon, Ph.D. Date completed: July 2010 This dissertation reconstructs chronologically the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Norway from the Haugian Pietist revival in the early 1800s to the establishment of the first Seventh-day Adventist Conference in Norway in 1887. -
History of Bergen Congregation Compiled for Golden Jubilee (51St Anniversary) July 12-13, 1936 by R
History of Bergen Congregation Compiled for Golden Jubilee (51st Anniversary) July 12-13, 1936 by R. S. Sigdestad The Bergen congregation in Day County, South Dakota, was organized in the home of Nels Williamson Sr., by Lynn Lake, in the autumn of 1885, by Rev. K. 0. Storli of Wilmot, S. Dak., on one of his mission journeys. It consisted of the following 17 voting members: Iver E. Skaare, Rasmus K. Mork, Ole Simonson, Ole E. Bakken, John J. Grove, Sakarias J. Sigdestad, Kolben T. Mork, John S. Sigdestad, Jacob K. Mork, Erik Winson, Ole Aas, Ole Monson, Nels Williamson Sr., Ole Svang, Martin Davidson, Hans Anderson and Martin Anderson. In 1886, together with Webster, Grenville and Fron churches, a call was extended to candidate in theology, .C M. Nordtvedt to become their pastor. He served until the fall of 1889 when he moved to Wisconsin. Two acres of land was donated to the congregation by Anton Norby for a cemetery in 1887. It was consecrated by Rev. Nordtvedt in 1888, and the first one t& be buried there was Anfin Sand, March 13 of that year. The first infant to be baptized of families who later became Bergen Church was Serine Skaare (Mrs. Lars Mydland) in the home of John Tofley, Dec. 5,1984. And the first child of Bergen to be baptized was Selma Grove (Mrs. Rasmus Egge) in the Nels Williamson home in October, 1885. Both were baptized by Rev. Storli. The first confirmation was held by Rev. Nordtvedt June 10, 1887, when the following were confirmed: Kolben K. -
Jahresbericht. Unter Mitwirkung
THEOLOGISCHER JAHRESBERICHT. UNTER MITWIRKUNG E lsenhans, E verling, F ickeb, F oersteb, F unger., H asenclever, H egler, H ering, K ohlschmidt, L ehmann, L oesche, L üdemann, L ülmann, M arbach, Mayer, P reuschex, S cheibe, S iegfried, S pitxa, S ülze. heratjsgegeben Dr. H. HOLTZMANN Dr. G. KRÜGER PROFESSOR IN STRASSBÜRO, ELSASS. PROFESSOR IX GIESSEN'. NEUNZEHNTER BAND ENTHALTEND D I E LITERATUR DES JAHRES 1899. FÜNFTE ABTHEILUNG REGISTER BEARBEITET VOM C. FUNGER, Pfarrer in Heichelheim bei Weimar. BERLIN 1900. C. A. SCHWETSCHKE UND SOHN. LONDON. j NEW-YORK. WILLIAMS & NORGATE. I GUSTAV E. STECHEET. 14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. j » EAST 1 6 th ‘ STREET. PARIS LI B RAI R I E PISCHBACHE R. (socrfiTfi a n o n y m e ) 33, RUE de seine. C. A. Schwetschke und. Sohn, IJerlin TV. 35. Handbuch cler Von Friedrich Nippold. Dritte umgearbeitete Auflage. Band I: Einleitung in die Kirchengeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. M. 10,— . II: Geschichte des Katholizismus. M. 15,— . ,, . III. 1: Geschichte des Protestantismus: Geschichte der deutschen Theologie. M. 9,— . „ III. 2: Geschichte des Protestantismus: Interkonfessionelle Zeitfragen und Zukünftaufgaben. M. 6,— . „ IV: Amerikanische KirGhengeschichte. M. 6.40.'' Der Entwicklungsgang des Lebens Jesu im Wortlaut der drei ersten Evangelien. Vom Beginn des öffentlichen Auftretens bis zum Beginn der Leidensgeschichte. E in Hiilfsbiichlein für die P>ibelleser in der Gemeinde. Von Friedrich Nippold. Neue Ausgabe. — M. 4,— Register. Die im Bericht über die Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters unter No. 26 Lokalgeschichte aufgeführten Publikationen, Landschaften, Städte, Bisthümer, Kirchen und Klöster betreffend, sind in das Register nicht aufgonominen worden. Achelis, Th., d. sociale Frage im Lichte Aall, A., Gesch. -
The Doctrine of the Church and Its Ministry According to the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the Usa
THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH AND ITS MINISTRY ACCORDING TO THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD OF THE USA by KARL EDWIN KUENZEL Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY In the subject SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA PROMOTER: PROFESSOR ERASMUS VAN NIEKERK November 2006 ii Summary Nothing has influenced and affected the Lutheran Church in the U.S.A. in the past century more than the doctrine of the Church and its Ministry. When the first Norwegian immigrants entered the U.S. in the middle of the 19th century, there were not enough Lutheran pastors to minister to the spiritual needs of the people. Some of these immigrants resorted to a practice that had been used in Norway, that of using lay-preachers. This created problems because of a lack of proper theological training. The result was the teaching of false doctrine. Some thought more highly of the lay-preachers than they did of the ordained clergy. Consequently clergy were often viewed with a discerning eye and even despised. This was one of the earliest struggles within the Norwegian Synod. Further controversies involved whether the local congregation is the only form in which the church exists. Another facet of the controversy involves whether or not the ministry includes only the pastoral office; whether or not only ordained clergy do the ministry; whether teachers in the Lutheran schools are involved in the ministry; and whether or not any Christian can participate in the public ministry. Is a missionary, who serves on behalf of the entire church body, a pastor? If only the local congregation can call a pastor, then a missionary cannot be a pastor because he serves the entire church body in establishing new congregations. -
Happenings at Lime Creek June 14-19, 1918
Newsletter of the ELS Historical Society Volume 22 Spring 2018 Issue 2 HAPPENINGS AT LIME CREEK JUNE 14-19, 1918 What did they do at that first convention of the Old Norwe- The afternoon meeting began with hymn, Scripture gian Synod? reading and prayer, led by Pastor Emil Hansen. Pres- ident B. Harstad read the following overview of the mi- Some excerpts from Beretning om Synodemødet 1918 nority’s position and what led to calling this meeting. [Report of the Synod Meeting] will give some clues to the mood and the spirit of this meeting in the little white Honored assembly: church set in the midst of fields and groves on the rolling In asking for your attention, it is only in order to prairie in northern Iowa. submit a short account of what a few members of the June 14 was a Friday and the proceedings began in the Norwegian Synod undertook last summer. morning At the beginning of the Report this account of the When the old Norwegian Synod, according to our con- opening of the convention is printed: viction, last summer left the old house and entered into The synod meeting held in Lime Creek Church, Pastor a new association, a few of us could not go along, but H. Ingebritson’s call from June 14 through 19, 1918 we gathered together in order to decide what we now began with an opening sermon by President Bjug should think about doing. What we were united on will Harstad. best be expressed by the record of our meeting, most have seen in Luthersk Tidende. -
Norwegian Surnames in America
Norwegian Surnames in America Surnames During the Immigration Period From 1825, the year of the first organized Norwegian immigration to the USA on the sloop Restauration, until the beginning of the next century, about 900,000 Norwegians immigrated to America. For most of them, the destination was the USA. During the 1800s , most Norwegians did not have a set surname. They had a given name (Anna, Knut), which was their actual name, and a patronymic, which consisted of the father’s name and the suffix son/sen (English son) as in Knut Andersen or dotter/datter (English daughter) as in Anna Larsdatter. This name provided information as to whose daughter or son the person was. If the individual lived on a farm, the name of the farm was added to the two previous names, more like an address than a surname. In an official document the name might look like this: Anna Larsdatter Helland, i.e. Anna is the daughter of Lars and lives on the farm Helland. Among the gentry during the 1800s, it had become customary to have a set surname. Gradually, society was becoming more organized with a growing bureaucracy, which put demands on a more dependable system for identifying its citizens, but it wasn’t until 1923 that the Norwegian Parliament, Stortinget, passed a law requiring all Norwegians to take a set surname or family name. When emigrants were registered on departure from Norway, and on their entry into America, they needed to have a surname. The choice of name could vary a great deal within a family, and it could also be changed during the first decades in the new country. -
Hans Nielsen Hauge: a Catalyst of Literacy in Norway
NB! This is the final manuscript. In the published version there are changes in litterature and notes. HANS NIELSEN HAUGE: A CATALYST OF LITERACY IN NORWAY Linda Haukland, University of Nordland In this article, I examine the role Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771–1824) played in encouraging literacy in the Norwegian peasant society in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, an aspect of his ministry never before discussed. This poorly educated son of a peasant broke the unwritten rule of never publishing texts for a large readership without the necessary educational skills. Thus he opened up a new literate space where the common person could express him- or herself on paper. Hauge printed around 40 different texts, 14 of them books, in a language the peasants could understand. This inspired his followers not only to read, but also to write, mainly letters to Hauge and to Haugeans in other parts of Norway. Some even became authors. Women played a central role in this wave of literacy spreading throughout the country. Based on Hauge’s original texts, I present some crucial aspects of his mentality and show how his ministry served as a catalyst to the growth of literacy among peasants during the period. NB! This is the final manuscript. In the published version there are changes in litterature and notes. References Archival sources Kvamen, Ingolf, Haugianerbrev Bind 1: 1760 - 1804, Norsk Historisk Kjeldeskrift- Institutt, upublisert Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim (UBIT), A 0161 Per Øverland, F Haugianerne i Norge Published sources Aftenbladet December 02, 1859. In Fet, Jostein, ‘Berte Canutte Aarflot’. Store Norske leksikon. -
Guide to South Dakota Norwegian-American Collections
GUIDE TO COLLECTIONS RELATING TO SOUTH DAKOTA NORWEGIAN-AMERICANS Compiled by Harry F. Thompson, Ph.D. Director of Research Collections and Publications The Center for Western Studies With the assistance of Arthur R. Huseboe, Ph.D. and Paul B. Olson Additional assistance by Carol Riswold, D. Joy Harris, and Laura Plowman Originally published in 1991 by The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD 57197 and updated in 2007. Original publication was made possible by a grant from the South Dakota Committee on the Humanities and by a gift from Harold L. Torness of Sisseton, South Dakota. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Albright College 2 Augustana College, The Center for Western Studies 3 Augustana College, Mikkelsen Library 4 Augustana College (IL), Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center 5 Black Hills State University 6 Brookings Public Library 7 Canton Public Library 8 Centerville Public Library 9 Codington County Historical Society 10 Cornell University Libraries 11 Dakota State University 12 Dakota Wesleyan University 13 Dewey County Library 14 Elk Point Community Library 15 Grant County Public Library 16 Phoebe Apperson Hearst Library 17 J. Roland Hove 18 Luther College 19 Minnehaha County Historical Society 20 Minnehaha County Rural Public Library 21 Minnesota Historical Society, Research Center 2 22 Mitchell Area Genealogical Society 23 Mobridge Public Library 24 National Archives--Central Plains Region 25 North Dakota State University, North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies 26 Norwegian American Historical Association 27 James B. Olson 28 Rapid City Public Library 29 Rapid City Sons of Norway Borgund Lodge I-532 30 Regional Center for Mission--Region III, ELCA 31 St. -
The Two Folk Churches in Finland
The Two Folk Churches in Finland The 12th Finnish Lutheran-Orthodox Theological Discussions 2014 Publications of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland 29 The Church and Action The Two Folk Churches in Finland The 12th Finnish Lutheran-Orthodox Theological Discussions 2014 Publications of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland 29 The Church and Action National Church Council Department for International Relations Helsinki 2015 The Two Folk Churches in Finland The 12th Finnish Lutheran-Orthodox Theological Discussions 2014 © National Church Council Department for International Relations Publications of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland 29 The Church and Action Documents exchanged between the churches (consultations and reports) Tasknumber: 2015-00362 Editor: Tomi Karttunen Translator: Rupert Moreton Book design: Unigrafia/ Hanna Sario Layout: Emma Martikainen Photos: Kirkon kuvapankki/Arto Takala, Heikki Jääskeläinen, Emma Martikainen ISBN 978-951-789-506-4 (paperback) ISBN 978-951-789-507-1 (PDF) ISSN 2341-9393 (Print) ISSN 2341-9407 (Online) Unigrafia Helsinki 2015 CONTENTS Foreword ..................................................................................................... 5 THE TWELFTH THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF FINLAND AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF FINLAND, 2014 Communiqué. ............................................................................................. 9 A Theological and Practical Overview of the Folk Church, opening speech Bishop Arseni ............................................................................................ -
A Table in the Wilderness
A Table in the Wilderness [Our Legacy as the Spiritual Successors of the Norwegian Synod] By Rev. Craig A. Ferkenstad We, in the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, trace the founding of our American Lutheran identity to a September day under two oak trees at a place called Koshkonong in Dane County, Wisconsin. On Monday, September 2, 1844, more than 150 years ago, a Lutheran pastor from Norway gathered with a small group of immigrants beneath these oak trees in the western part of the Koshkonong settlement. These men and women had come with their families from Norway. Already they had established settlements at LaSalle County, Illinois, in 1834 (Fox River); Rock County, Wisconsin, in 1838 (Jefferson Prairie and Rock Prairie); Racine County, Wisconsin, in 1839 (Muskego); and Dane County, Wisconsin, in 1840 (Koshkonong). Most had come for economic reasons. In their brightly painted wooden emigrant trunks many of them had packed their precious Bible, the catechism [Forklaring], a book of sermons [Huspostille] and a hymnbook [Psalmebog]; but they were lacking pastors to serve them. By the summer of 1844, there were neither any church buildings nor any fully organized congregations among the Norwegian immigrants. There were only two pastors serving the Norwegian Lutherans. Elling Eilsen was a lay-preacher who had consented to be ordained by a neighboring pastor. Claus L. Clausen had come the previous year as a teacher and, upon request of the settlers at Muskego, was ordained at that time. Such was the situation when the twenty-nine year-old J.W.C. Dietrichson arrived in Wisconsin. He was the first ordained pastor to come from Norway. -
The Large Catechism by Martin Luter
The Large Catechism By Dr. Martin Luther Translated by F. Bente and W. H. T. Dau Essay on Martin Luther and Protestantism Published in: Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Ev. Lutheran Church. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), pp. 565-773 Preface A Christian, Profitable, and Necessary Preface and Faithful, Earnest Exhortation of Dr. Martin Luther to All Christians, but Especially to All Pastors and Preachers, that They Should Daily Exercise Themselves in the Catechism, which is a Short Summary and Epitome of the Entire Holy Scriptures, and that they May Always Teach the Same. We have no slight reasons for treating the Catechism so constantly [in Sermons] and for both desiring and beseeching others to teach it, since we see to our sorrow that many pastors and preachers are very negligent in this, and slight both their office and this teaching; some from great and high art [giving their mind, as they imagine, to much higher matters], but others from sheer laziness and care for their paunches, assuming no other relation to this business than if they were pastors and preachers for their bellies’ sake, and had nothing to do but to [spend and] consume their emoluments as long as they live, as they have been accustomed to do under the Papacy. And although they have now everything that they are to preach and teach placed before them so abundantly, clearly, and easily, in so many [excellent and] helpful books, and the true Sermones per se loquentes, Dormi secure, Paratos et Thesauros, as they were called in former times; yet they are not so godly and honest as to buy these books, or even when they have them, to look at them or read them.