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The new archbishop of Sweden, with a Muslim motto. Photo: Jan Nordén / Svenskakyrkan.se
Archbishop with a penchant for Allah
Author: Ingeborg Olsson October 15, 2013
Prior predictions tallied. Today it was announced that the Swedish Church's new archbishop named Antje Jackelén. But who is she really - the church's new senior leaders who use parts of the Muslim call to prayer in his motto?
Current Archbishop Anders Wejryd retire next summer and today was elected his successor. Being archbishop is an office with great responsibility. According to the Swedish Church's website has about 6.5 million members, and the organization is divided into 13 dioceses. Each diocese is led by a bishop and of these bishops are then archbishop.
Jackeléns profit is described as historic. For the first time in Swedish history of the Church is the future archbishop a woman. Strong lobbies in the Swedish Church has long argued that the new Archbishop must be a woman, and the sex has thus been an advantage. Critics argue that the ring has been raked for Jackelén outset.
Lunda Bishop Antje Jackelén won big and got their 174 votes, a majority of the votes already in the first round. Although the Swedish church chose its top leaders, has no personal briefing hostname made by Jackelén. The bishop's academic excellence has however highlighted. She is a professor of theology, it is said, but not according to Swedish standards.
Antje Zöllner was born in Herdecke in Germany in 1955 and came to Sweden in 1978 on a study scholarship. A year later she married Heinz Jackelén, also from Germany. She was ordained in 1980 for the Stockholm Bishop Lars Carlzon, who alongside his episcopate was chairman of the friendship between Sweden and the GDR.
When Antje Jackelén 2007 was appointed bishop of the diocese of Lund, she came from a post at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, where she taught systematic theology / religion and science. She had previously been the parish priest in Stockholm and Lund diocese.
All bishops, like kings, their own motto and Jackelén chose their "God is greater". If that sounds familiar, it is because surely that motto translated into Arabic becomes "Allahu akbar." There are those who believe that the election was not a coincidence - but no more than consciously.
Many were still surprised Jackeléns theological opinions, aired during a hearing in Uppsala October 1. Candidates for the Swedish Church's highest office was asked if they believed that Jesus gave a truer picture of God than Muhammad. With his evasive answers became Jackelén suddenly bishop who could not choose between Jesus and Muhammad, something that had even the media to the editorial pages react strongly.
Church newspaper said that the bishop's response can be interpreted as if Christ is coming out in the margin of the Swedish Church, and the Daily News called Archbishop candidates theological backbone. Cross-writer of newspaper Dagen wrote that now is the time to begin to accept the idea of a division of the Swedish Church - a division between those who are Christians and those who equate all religions.
Lundabiskopens love for Allah has also led to one of the Swedish Church's foremost theologians, member of the Swedish Church's doctrinal committee, Professor Eva Hamberg, left his post in protest at Bishop Antje Jackelén does not agree with the church's creed. Hamberg has also resigned both his priestly title of his membership in the Swedish church, as a reaction to what she calls "the Swedish church's internal secularization". She has been in a number of interviews expressed their disappointment at how even the church's top leaders are clear in their Christian faith without wavering on the question of Jesus and Muhammad.
It's not just Jackeléns motto and her unwillingness to put Jesus in front of Muhammad, who had an emotional day for many church dedicated. The candidate hearing in Uppsala meant Swedish Church new archbishop also Swedish Church has more in common with other religions than with other Christian churches, the virgin birth is the metaphorical meaning, that hell does not exist and that the biblical texts are not to be regarded as truths.
The question is whether the Swedish Church has received the "unifying force" had been hoped, or if today taken another step towards its abolition
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