RT Article
T1 The bishop as mystagogue, prioress, and leader of the choir: exploring the nature of episcopal authority in the Church of Sweden
JF International journal for the study of the Christian church
VO 23
IS 2
SP 138
OP 151
A1 Johannesson, Karin
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1850978255
AB The authority of the bishop is not easy to define outside the three key concepts of teacher (mystagogue), prior or prioress of the ordained clergy, and democracy in which the bishop is the ‘leader of the choir’. In Uppsala there is a sense of a folk church in which all ministry is collaborative and the bishop’s authority is rooted in a practical ‘powerlessness’. The bishop is a teacher through regular parish visitations and operates alongside an elected General Synod of which she is not herself a member. As a teacher the bishop is a theologian with a future orientated teaching in the body of the Church.
K1 Authority
K1 collaborative
K1 Democracy
K1 mystagogue
K1 prioress
K1 Synod
DO 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2211313