Lars Olof Jonathan Sderblom
Lars Olof Jonathan Sderblom better known by the name of Nathan was born in Sderblom Trono , ( Sweden ) on 15 January 1866 in the Swedish province of Hlsingland , Jonas Sderblom, priest of the Church of Sweden pietistic , and Sophia Blume. Among his ancestors, there are a bishop of Oslo.
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As a student at the University of Uppsala , Sderblom wins respect as much for his intellectual achievement than by his personal charm, vitality, and his oratory. He graduated in 1886 , with honors in Greek and recognized competence in Hebrew , in Arabic , and Latin. This equips the excellent language skills for research that continues to the faculty of theology of the University of Uppsala , where for the next six years, he continued extensive studies in theology and religious history.
Since its inception in 1888 and for five years, Sderblom is the editor of Meddelanden, the journal of the association missionary student, where are published the first pages of what would become a personal bibliography of 700 items. In 1890 , he attended the conference of Christian students in New England given by a cleric called, after which he wrote in his diary a sentence which was to prove prophetic: "Lord, give me humility and wisdom of to work for your Church be united and free. "
The career
Ordained International aspects Internationally, he is best known as architect of the movement ecumenical the twentieth century. Yet he has no biography in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911. No mention of his name appears in the decree Unitatis Redintegratio ( 21 November 1964 ), text of Vatican II who founded the ecumenical Catholic. He had already begun to intercommunion between the Swedish Church and the Church of England from 1909. In 1920 , he invited the Bishop Woods Peterborough , England , to attend the consecration of two bishops Swedish Lutherans. The following year, by way of reciprocity, Sderblom is hosted by Woods in Peterborough, with the movement to become "Life and Work" '. At Stockholm , in 1925 , he organized the Universal Life and Labour Council. At the same time, in 1927 , a significant group of Anglicans and Episcopalians which had formed an inter-denominational Faith and Order. After his death in 1948 , the two groups merged to form the World Council of Churches under the leadership of his successor, Willem Visser 't Hooft. Sderblom finds that the ecumenical movement is hampered during this period for various reasons: the French officials, German and American Church were conservatives, the Archbishop of Canterbury turns cautious, the patriarchs of the Orthodox Churches Oriental just emerging from isolation. The constant opposition of the Vatican , as that of Pius XI and his encyclical Mortalium animosity of 6 January 1928 as various as the Jesuit church John Wyne , the priest Charles Journet or Cardinal Armido Gasparini. The conference in Stockholm in 1925 bringing together Anglicans, Protestants and Orthodox Christians and is the culminating event in the ecumenical efforts of Sderblom. The Vatican is absent in his opening speech, Sderblom regretted the absence of "the Apostle Peter." The conference, described in detail in the book Sderblom Stockholm, 1925, expresses a basis for future ecumenical faith, underscores the need to reconcile the competing philosophies of spirituality subjective and objective social action, and seeks a path of unity ending with a call for world peace. Sderblom was proud of his election to the Swedish Academy in 1921 , his Nobel Peace prize in 1930 , and his invitation to give the Gifford lectures at Edinburgh in 1931. Famous for this course, he was planning a large research effort - two series of lectures to be delivered one in 1931 and another in 1932 , to be published in two volumes. The first series of ten lectures were given between 19 May and 8 June 1931. An appropriate title for his book was overdue, he found the last day of his life, 12 July 1931 : Living God. Notes
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