A Bibliography of the History of the Swedish Evangelical Free Church of America

DAVID M. GUSTAFSON

he Swedish Evangelical Free Church, which was incorpo• rated in 1908, had its earlier beginning at a conference held in October 1884 at Boone, Iowa. The early leaders included Professor J. G. Princell, evangelist Fredrik Franson, and publisher John Martenson of -Bladet. The pioneers of this group of self-governing churches were influenced greatly by Swedish pietists such as P. P. Waldenstrom and American revivalists such as D. L. Moody. The Swedish Evangelical Free Church came into being at the height of Swedish immigration to America. This was also a pe• riod of theological conflict, described in most histories of the Augustana Lutheran, Mission Covenant, and Evangelical Free churches. Of these bodies, the Evangelical Free churches cherished their independence and autonomy and resisted influences from any ruling body over the local church. The Swedish Evangelical Free Church merged in 1950 with the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Association to form what is today the Evangelical Free Church of America, an association of over 1,200 churches. The following bibliography of the Swedish group is collected from references at the archives of the Evangelical Free Church of America in ; Trinity International University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, ; North Park Theo• logical Seminary in Chicago; the Swenson Center at Augustana Col-

DAVID M. GUSTAFSON is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Free Church of America and serves as associate pastor at Homewood Evangelical Free Church in Moline, Illinois. He is a graduate of Western Illinois University (B.S.), Trinity Evan¬ gelical Divinity School (M.Div., Th.M.), and Fuller Theological Seminary (D.Min.). 223 lege in Rock Island, Illinois; and WorldCat, a national database of public and university libraries.

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