{"title":"Sleeping beauty or wide awake?","authors":"Stephen Sirris, Hans Austnaberg","doi":"10.53311/sjlt.v10.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53311/sjlt.v10.114","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies mission within the context of traditional Nordic national churches. In the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway, a state church until 2012, eighty percent of all congregations have formal agreements with a mission organization to support a project abroad. Given their prevalence, these agreements need empirical investigation as they provide access to congregational understandings and their practicing of mission. From the perspective of missiology and organization theory, this article asks: What do the mission agreements accomplish in the congregations, and how do the congregations use the agreements? Based on interviews in six congregations, our analysis shows that the function of the agreements depends on the engagement of individual volunteers and employees. Engagement is high when projects are perceived as concrete and diaconal and are incorporated into congregations’ organizational structures and key activities. Mission is primarily understood as supporting projects in the global south and as sharing the Christian faith with churches in other countries.","PeriodicalId":498238,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal for leadership & theology","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136262693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Jeg har på en måte alltid gått der»","authors":"Roald Zeiffert","doi":"10.53311/sjlt.v10.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53311/sjlt.v10.113","url":null,"abstract":"\"I've Kind of Always Been There\" - The Meaning of Personal Conversion Among Youth in Low Church Movements in Norway Young Christians in prayer houses and free churches in Norway are part of organizations and church communities with roots in revival movements. Historically, personal conversion has been central in these environments. By employing a mixed-method approach, combining surveys and group interviews, this article elucidates the relationship between religious socialization and conversion. The primary reason that young Christians are actively involved in a free church or prayer house is that their parents have brought them here. What role does personal choice play, and what do the church activities and practices mean for this choice? The article takes a grassroots perspective, where young people's conversion experiences and their perception of the content of this contribute to new knowledge about both young people and the revival movements in Norway.","PeriodicalId":498238,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal for leadership & theology","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136263407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the limits of the pastoral profession","authors":"Stephen Sirris","doi":"10.53311/sjlt.v10.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53311/sjlt.v10.111","url":null,"abstract":"Two discourses frame the pastoral profession in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway: one is the professional, which emphasises religion, while the other is organisational and foregrounds management. This article explores interactions, between pastors and a dean, that are situated on the boundaries of these two discourses. From the theoretical perspective of institutional boundary work, I analyse a case study that highlights observational data, and in particular, meetings and performance appraisal interviews with pastors. The research question is as follows: How do interactions between pastors and deans serve as spaces for discursive boundary work by the pastoral profession? As the church aligns itself with modern work organisations, the findings show how the clergy construct themselves and their work by drawing on both discourses. This article discusses how pastoral work is perceived discursively as both a modern occupation and also a religious profession through efforts that can be described as competitive, collaborative and configurational boundary work. Interactions constitute a space where the actors work for, at and through these boundaries by negotiating their core work, relationships and theology.","PeriodicalId":498238,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal for leadership & theology","volume":"18 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136317729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ordet som vokser: Hvorfor evangeliet alltid må sette agendaen i kirken","authors":"Lars Råmunddal","doi":"10.53311/pub02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53311/pub02","url":null,"abstract":"I Apostlenes gjerninger beskriver Lukas evangeliet som Ordet som vokser. Hva en slik betegnelse sier om evangeliet – og om kirkens forhold til evangeliet, står i fokus i denne boken. Som kristen kirke i vår tid utfordres vi kontinuerlig på å oppdage og erfare hvilken nådekraft og vekstdynamikk det ligger i selve Ordet, i evangeliet, og i forkynnelsen av dette. Gjennom hele kirkens historie – og ikke minst i det kirkeliv vi er vitne til i dag, finnes det sterke krefter som presser oss til å gjøre tilpasninger av, og noen ganger også erstatninger for, evangeliet, slik at vi ikke ser klart hva evangeliet egentlig handler om. En del av dynamikken i det som skjer, er at tyngdepunktet forskyves fra Ordets egen og «innebygde» virkekraft – til fokus på egne agendaer, planer og selvvalgte virkemidler for å oppnå vekst og framgang. Skjer dette, skjer det også noe med vår forståelse og erfaring både av evangeliet og kirken. Denne nevnte forskyvning av tyngdepunkt, kan gi grunn til bekymring. Den største uroen som forfatteren deler i denne boken, handler om oss selv og vår egen tilkortkommenhet når det gjelder å forstå og erfare hva evangeliets karakter som ubetinget nådebudskap og livsforvandlende kraft innebærer. Derfor må evangeliet – Ordet som vokser – stadig på nytt få sette agendaen i våre personlige liv og i våre kirker!","PeriodicalId":498238,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal for leadership & theology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135450484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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