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The purpose of this article is to examine the value of an interdisciplinary approach to dealing with ecclesiological issues of a relational nature and to contribute to the ecclesiological understanding of the church as a mystical communion. By applying role-theoretical, ecclesiological, and liturgical-theological perspectives to three fictional pastoral cases, the study shows that the methodological approach and the ecclesiological dimension (horizontal or vertical) considered are of crucial importance to how relational events of a pastoral nature can be interpreted and understood. The study demonstrates the productivity of bringing together theoretical perspectives from behavioural science and theology and shows that an awareness of the two ecclesiological dimensions (horizontal and vertical) can strengthen the conditions for keeping them together. According to the study, the understanding of the church as “a body” is crucial – not only the social body but also, and especially, the mystical body. In a mystical theological sense, it is in the juxtaposition between the horizontal and the vertical that “healing” occurs and “koinonia” takes place.

I föreliggande antologi behandlas temat Lärande och kyrka utifrån olika infallsvinklar och med olika metoder. Varje artikel utgör ett självständigt bidrag. Kim Groop medverkar med artikeln: "En helgedom i vetenskapens hägn: Universitetskyrkan i Leipzig från invigning till förstörelse" som behandlar relationen mellan universitet och kyrka med utgångspunkt i universitetskyrkan i Leipzig. Marie Rosenius artikel "Kristendomskunskapen som försvann: Varför saknas ett systematiskt och nationellt samordnat program för dopundervisning i Svenska kyrkan?" utforskar möjliga bidragande faktorer som kan ge svar på denna fråga. Jakob Evertssons artikel "Lärdomens katedral: en studie av relationen mellan lärdomsskola och kyrka i Strängnäs från medeltid till yngre vasatid" behandlar specifikt tre perioder: Den medeltida katedralskolan, reformationstidens lärdomsskola och 1600-talets gymnasium. Antologin utgör volym 4 i skriftserien Studia Theologica Practica Umensia.

The article highlights secular influences in contemporary understandings of liturgical participation by exploring the relationship between visions of the early modern liturgical movement and contemporary ways of understanding participation in the Church of Sweden. The constructs opine, understand, and do are used in the comparison as are the concepts participatio plena, participatio conscia, and participatio actuosa in Sacrosanctum Concilium. An overall reflection based on the analysis is that secular ideologies and trends not only influence liturgical form but tend to erode theological language itself. Religious individualism, combined with “internal ecclesial secularization,” tends to imbue the very understanding of church and of liturgy. A new phase in the liturgical movement called the “late modern liturgical movement” is discussed. The church appears here as the “church of the individual” and the liturgy in the sense of ordo is seen as an “open” order and framework, rather than as juxtaposition and sacramental event.

The aim of this article is to contribute to the development of minority theology by actualizing, developing and assessing a set of analytic tools. We strive to fulfil this aim by pursuing three parallel paths. Firstly, we relate our discussion of minority theology to other kinds of minority studies in order to benefit from theoretical perspectives and empirical findings provided by other disciplines. Secondly, because minority theology is a consequence of religious diversity, we explore how concepts developed in theology of religions and aimed at clarifying the relation to the (religious) other, can prove helpful for the task of identifying and analysing the theological coping strategies and the identity work adopted by both majorities and minorities. Thirdly, in order to avoid an all-too-encompassing definition of minority studies in theology, which might lead to a blurring of the concept, we develop and argue for a distinction between theology by, about, because of, and with minorities.

Utifrån den allmänkyrkliga traditionen att människor genom dopet blir iklädda Kristus och infogade i Kristi kropp, är delaktighet en given aspekt i gudstjänst och kyrka. Likafullt är frågan hur delaktighet ska förstås och främjas i praktiken komplex. Boken visar att ecklesiologi och pedagogik är nära sammantvinnade och argumenterar för teologisk forskning som kastar ljus på denna relation.