Bengt Sundkler
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Bengt Sundkler, born May 7, 1908 Degerfors, Västerbotten, Sweden, died April 5, 1995 in Uppsala, Sweden in 1995 , was a Swedish-Tanzanian Church historian. missiologist, professor and bishop of Bukoba.
Biography
He was the son of a merchant Gustaf Sundkler and Lilly Bergman. His father was the son of Carl Gustaf Sinclair (1849-1919) , the last member of the Swedish Counts dynasty Sinclair. After studying at the universities of Uppsala , Strasbourg and Paris Bengt Sundkler became doctor of dicvinity (teol.dr )1937 with a thesis on mission tank breakthrough in Sweden by Swedish Lutheran Mission 1835-75 . Earlier, he had already in 1933 published the book How old is the sacrament of infant baptism and in Paris in 1937 published study contributions ? A l' étude de la pensée missionaire dans le Nouveau Testament ." He was then working as a Church-of-Sweden missionary in Tanganyika 1937-42 and as the superintendent of the Lutheran Haya Church there 1942-45 He then returned to Sweden and was appointed associate professor of missiology at Uppsala University in 1945 and was the 1942-45 research secretary of the International missionary Council in London . Between 1949-74 he was chair professor of Church History and history of Christian missions at Uppsala University. When the Haya Church 1961 introduced the episcopate , he was called back there as the first holder and was Bishop of Bukoba in Tanzania 1961-64 .
Sundkler 1961-65 was a member of the World Council of Churches Central Committee and delegate pf the Haya Church at the WCC World Synod in Uppsala in 1968. In 1959-61 , he was vice president of the International Mission Council . He was an honorary doctorate in theology at the universities of Aberdeen, Tubingen, Oslo and Helsinki.[1]
Missiologist and Church historian
Sundkler had a leading position as ecumenism and mission researchers and is considered the foremost scholar of African church history and gave among others the book Bantu Prophets in South Africa in 1945, which was translated into several languages. As ecumenist he depicted the Church of South India from 1900 to 1947, an unique across denominational church merger in India. The book ‘’Christian Ministry in Africa’’ were published in 1960. As a university teacher in Sweden he published ‘’Missionens värld’’ in 1963 and a Swedish missionary atlas 1957. The Swedish Tanzania Mission's history , he wrote in the books ‘’Young Church in Tanganyika’’ (1948) ‘Bara Bukoba’’ 1974. As his main work counted the 1200 -page African church history ‘’A History of the Church in Africa’’ , (2000) , published posthumously . In the mission of the research area , he was a an innovator and introduced the today usual concept of " Third World Church History ."
He was a distinguished connoisseur of Nathan Soderblom and published in 1968 the biography ‘’Nathan Soderblom his Life and Work’’ , and then a number of other writings about him.
Bibliography
See Sigbert Axelson , " Bengt G. M. Sundkler . Bibliography . " In ‘’The Church Crossing Frontiers. Essays on the Nature of Mission in Honour of Bengt Sundkler ‘’.( Studia Missionalia Upsaliensia 11. ) 1969.
References
- ^ Marjaliisa Swantz , ‘’ Beyond the Forest Line : the Life and Letters of Bengt Sundkler ‘’, 2002
- Carl Johan Hellberg, "Biskop Bengt av Bukoba." Swedish Missiological Themes / Svensk Missionstidskrift 84 (1996), s. 5–16.
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