Full text: The national Church of Sweden

392 - VHIL-—-THE MODERN PERIOD (A.D. 1812—1910). 
theology emphasises more strongly the objective element 
in the life of Christendom, the Upsala lays more stress on 
the subjective. The Lund theology is penetrated by the 
conviction that false subjectivism is the greatest danger of 
Protestantism. Upsala theology recognizes that true sub- 
jectivism is the necessary condition of Protestant life.” In 
other words, the theology of Upsala was, during the last 
century, much more of a philosophy, in which the idea of 
the Church was tolerated rather than loved. Dr. Séder- 
blom, who has written some interesting pages on this sub- 
ject, in a brilliant address to the Student Volunteer meet- 
ing at Huskvarna, in 1909, entitled The Individual and 
the Church, expressed himself as follows: ¢ Attachment 
to the Church was not a leading feature of Upsala 
theology, still less did it create enthusiasm. Rather was 
it felt as a burden. An inspiring conception of the 
Church, penetrated with enthusiasm, was manifested later 
on by S. A. Fries, evidently in connection with (the 
philosopher) Bostrém’s Ideal of an Established Church, 
and by J. A. Eklund (Bishop of Carlstad) in the form of 
the ideal of a national Church, which he assigned to the 
period of our political greatness.” The idea, therefore, 
even then, was not a general one like that of the Lund 
theologians, of an eternal world-wide society, founded at 
Pentecost, and embracing the best efforts of all men, but a 
partial and patriotic one of narrower scope and compass. 
The two may, of course, be united, as they are to-day by 
the professors of Upsala, in an attempt to define what the 
Church of Sweden may do as a constituent part of the 
universal Church, and to encourage men to labour to realize 
this in action as its contribution to a united offering of 
service to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ (Séderblom : 
l.c., pp. 25 foll.). 
Before the Church Times had been in existence ten years 
the editors were called upon to separate. Bring became 
% Den Enskilde och Kyrkan af Nathan Soderbldm, féredrag 
hdllet vid Studentmétet i Huskvarna, 1gog, p. 20, Uppsala, 1900.
	        
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