Beredelsens plats i Svenska kyrkans mässordning

Abstract

The Church of Sweden sent during the spring 2010 two documents, Teologiska grundprinciper för arbetet I 2006 års handboksgrupp and Mässans grundordning for consideration. The documents are parts in the work with writing a new service-book for the Church of Sweden. After the documents had been sent for consideration by the dioceses there has been a discussion about the proposal to make the preparation in the service of Holy Communion facultative. My main question has been to se if there will be any change of the confession, faith and doctrine in the Church of Sweden if the preparation becomes facultative. I have seen that the service-book is an expression for the confession of the Church of Sweden, therefore there will be no change of the confession of the Church of Sweden, but a change of its expression. I have seen that there is no consensus in how the dioceses react over what is written in the two documents about the forgiveness and the atonement. My conclusion is that it may by difficult for the Church of Sweden to fix a new service-book without first fix what the Church of Sweden means with forgiveness and atonement.