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Dwight L. Moody and the Swedish Mission Friends
Christmas 2008
This dissertation by David M. Gustafson is a masterpiece. Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) is the most famous revivalist of the late 1800s. He exercised a deep and lasting influence on the Protestant world, even reaching Swedes. Though he himself was of Anglo-American heritage, never visited Sweden nor any of the Scandinavian countries, and did not speak the Swedish language, he was the outstanding revivalist among Swedish Mission Friends in Sweden and in America. The dissertation examines the effect of Moody’s popular movement on Swedes as they engaged his ideals, beliefs, methods, and subsequent conflicts.
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Roman Catholic Imagination According to Andrew M. Greeley
Winter 2003-2004
In the world of author, theologian, and sociologist Andrew M. Greeley, imagination combines the fabrics of life. Imagination is the glue that holds the fragments together. Imagination is primary for humans and it generates words, truths, doctrines, and systems of faith.
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Ernest Hemingway: The Character of Wrestling
Winter 2002-2003
I have been reading Ernest Hemingway since I was 13, and I have all his books in my study. I read him a couple times a year, mostly The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast, sometimes one of his short stories or his masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea.
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Tilltalad (Addressed) — The Sermons of Frank Mangs (1897-1994)
Spring 1995
Through a long period of this century a preacher named Frank Mangs (1897-1994) was a powerful influence both in Sweden and America. Runar Eldebo’s foreword to a new book of his sermons.
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Christian Faith Is a Public Community
Fall 1993
The Christian faith is to be viewed as both inclusive and exclusive. It is a misfortune that various Christian traditions as well as other traditions have played the inclusive and exclusive against each other.
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God - My Beloved Opponent
Spring 1992
Why faith, anyway? The questions asked of Christians today are legio, that is, many. The answers must not be too simple; they are to be found in the depths of our faith. Why are we Christians, anyway? Why did we stay when so many went away? Why did we not leave when crowds did, when so much of our modem society developed in front of our very eyes?
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The Sermon and Its Content
Summer 1989
A sermon is an announcement of a new time. The suspense is not so much between "a then" and "a now," as it is between "an already now" and "a not quite yet." The time is at hand, God's kingdom is near.
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The Eschatological Dilemma
Fall 1987
Hereby presented to the general public, those interested in Biblical questions, is the result of several years of research and study in a subject which has been, and is, of great importance for each and everyone who is concerned to correctly assess the end of humankind's development from a Biblical standpoint and to answer the question whether or not; according to the teaching of Holy Scripture, this development shall end in an unsolvable and endless dualism.
