N.F.S. Grundtvig: an American study
by Nielsen, Ernest D
Publication date 1955
Topics Grundtvig, N. F. S. (Nicolai Frederik Severin), 1783-1872, Theologians
-- Denmark
-- Biography, Theologians, Denmark
Language English
173 pages 22 cm
1. On the trail of the spirit
-- Pagan cultures and manifestations of spiritual life
-- An historical testimony of spirit in action
-- Christian experience as evidence of divine spirit
-- The submergence of the spirit in the process of the church's social realization
-- The evangelization of western and northern Europe by irreconcilable methods of the sword of the spirit and the secular arm
-- Signs of hope in the Middle Ages
-- The Reformation as the rediscovery of the essential gospel through the recovery of the Spirit, the Word, and the faith
-- The illumination of the Holy Spirit and the churchly revival
2. The Spirit in the church
-- The center around which one must move in order to show the structure of Grundtvig's ecclesiology
-- No Schriftkirche
-- Ecclesia Christiana: a faith-society
-- Church vs. school and faith vs. theology
-- The sacraments
-- Signs of life within the churches --
3. The demand of the Spirit for freedom
-- A free society as the conditional element of liberty
-- Toward a comprehensive church
-- Confounding what is juridical and what is Christian --
4. Recapitulation
-- Experience and the form of expression
-- The substitution of history for metaphysics
-- No reversal of history
Includes bibliography
