Anders Nygren Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Anders Nygren
Bishop of Lund
Church:Church of Sweden
Diocese:Lund
Elected:1949
Term:1949–1958
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Predecessor:Edvard Magnus Rodhe
Successor:Nils Bolander
Ordination:3 June 1912
Consecration:22 May 1949
Consecrated By:Erling Eidem
Birth Date:15 November 1890
Birth Place:Gothenburg, Sweden
Death Place:Lund, Sweden
Buried:Norra cemetery, Lund
Nationality:Swede
Spouse:Irmgard Brandin
Children:4
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Anders Theodor Samuel Nygren (15 November 1890, Gothenburg – 20 October 1978, Lund) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian. He was professor of systematic theology at Lund University from 1924 and was elected Bishop of Lund in 1948 (emeritus 1958). He is best known for his two-volume work Agape and Eros (first published as Eros and Agape in Swedish in 1930–1936).

Nygren's approach, along with that of Gustaf Aulén, characterizes what is referred to as “Lundensian Theology”.

Nygren's observations about love are discussed at length in M. C. D'Arcy's The Mind And Heart Of Love: Lion And Unicorn, A Study In Eros And Agape, Faber and Faber, 1945.

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