Klosterlasses syn på reformationen i Sverige En tematisk analys av hans svar på Uppsala möte

Abstract

The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze Laurentius Nicolai Norvegus (called Klosterlasse) book “En ny lära som aldrig tidigare hörts i Guds kyrka: Klosterlasses kritiska genomgång av Uppsala möte 1593 och den Augsburgska bekännelsen”. The general question of the study is to understand what consequences the reformation in Sweden drove Klosterlasse to write the book? The method used in this thesis is to do an ecclesiological reading of the Swedish translation of the book and then make a thematic analysis of its contents. The conclusion of this study is 1) Klosterlasse did not think it was too late for a counterreformation. As evidence for this view, he states that some of the people that signed the Confessio Augustana reverted back to the Roman-Catholic Church. 2) He did not see a future for the Evangelical Churches, since his ecclesiological view prevented him from acknowledging that the holy spirit could work outside the Roman-Catholic Church. He also returns on several occasions that the Evangelic Churches continues to sunder into smaller groups, since they were lacking the holy spirit. 3) The last perspective is that Klosterlasse argues that the people of Sweden did not want to leave the Roman-Catholic Church, instead they were deceived by the Swedish authorities.