Försoning och ett odödligt hopp : Försoningsläror i svenska faste- och påskpsalmer

Sammanfattning

The essay is written within systematic theology with the aim of investigating which atonement theology and thus image of God that meets the congregations in Lent and Easter hymns in the Church of Sweden, and if the theology of atonement differs between these two groups of hymns. The purpose of the hymns is to express theology through song and shows what theology the Church of Sweden stands for. The essay therefore aims to investigate which view of reconciliation ten hymns from The Swedish Hymnal represent, because the hymnal is one of the priest's most important work tools and reconciliation is central to Christianity. The essay also aims to investigate whether the selected hymns bear any traces of Jürgen Moltmann's theology as it appears in his work 3 Theology of Hope. The question is whether the selected Lenten and Easter hymns contain any doctrines of reconciliation and, if so, which of the three major doctrines of reconciliation that Gustaf Aulén describes in The Christian Thought of Reconciliation, and if so how are these expressed?The question also includes in what way Jürgen Moltmann's theology of the eschatological hope for change in this life expresses itself in the hymns? The answer that emerges in the essay is that all the selected hymns contain a doctrine of reconciliation and that the Christus Victor Theory of Atonement is the most common. Especially in the Easter hymns it completely dominates. The Satisfaction Theory of Atonement does not appear at all in the selected Easter hymns. It is very common for several doctrines of atonement to appear in the same hymn. There is no difference in how the doctrines of atonement appear in the various denominations. Jürgen Moltmann's theology appears in just over half of the hymns, most of which are Easter hymns, which is not unexpected since hope is an obvious consequence of the resurrection. It also appears in all three doctrines of atonement.