LEADER 03240 am 22003133u 450 001 9910251391103321 005 20180108 010 $a952-222-986-5 024 7 $a10.21435/skst.1407 035 $a(CKB)4100000001587857 035 $a(OAPEN)641491 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001587857 100 $a20180108d|||| uy 101 0 $afin 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 200 10$aKansankirkko ristipaineessa 210 $aHelsinki$cFinnish Literature Society / SKS$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (416) 311 $a952-222-874-5 330 $aAs the highest internal decision-making body within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, the General Synod began, from 1876, congregating in Turku every tenth, and then eventually, every fifth year. By the 1960s, this decision-making system was becoming unsatisfactory. An extensive project to answer to the general ideals of the era and to strengthen the efficiency and democracy of the Church administration was initiated. The reformed General Synod got underway in 1974 with biannual gatherings. It was a body consisting of 108 members, including lay representatives, clergymen and the bishops. The General Synod retained its right to decide on ecclesiastical books and continued to hold the sole right to make proposals regarding the Church Act. A new task was to decide on the budget of the entire Church organisation and to steer the activities of the Church as a whole. Additionally, the General Synod received the general authority to handle any issues related to faith and doctrine, such as ecumenical issues. The book Kansankirkko ristipaineessa (A national folk church under conflicting pressures) takes a close look at the General Synod representatives during the years 1974?2011 and clarifies who the members of the Synod were, how they were elected and what they achieved. The study examines which of these persons held the most power, and what types of coalitions stood out within the work of the General Synod. In addition, the book aims to provide a general overall picture of the General Synod in relation to the Church, economic life, legislation, theological dialogue and the media. The study examines how well the intentions that drove the reform of the General Synod were realised and whether the General Synod was actually progressing as slowly or as briskly as expressed by different observers at different times. Discussions surrounding female ordination, sexual ethics and ecclesiastical books indicate the position of the General Synod within an increasingly diversified society. During the first decade of the 2000s, the General Synod experienced a similar revolution in terms of values as it had when preparing the reform of the Synod around the turn of the 1960s and 70s. The Church began to find itself once again in a missionary situation. 517 $aKansankirkko ristipaineessa 517 $aSuomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Toimituksia vol. 1407 606 $aProtestantism & Protestant Churches$2bicssc 615 7$aProtestantism & Protestant Churches 700 $aOlavi Antila$b Jaakko$4aut$0949097 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910251391103321 996 $aKansankirkko ristipaineessa$92145236 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01062nam 2200253la 450 001 9910481278603321 005 20210618143117.0 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2090344447 035 $a(CKB)5500000000095855 035 $a(EXLCZ)995500000000095855 100 $a20210618d1603 uy | 101 0 $alat 135 $aurcn||||a|bb| 200 13$a2: Nobilis, ... Theophrasti Bombast, ... Tomus genuinus secundus. Tradens fundamenta, quibus verae & genuinae medicinae ars superstructa, & exquibus solis illa addiscipossit. .$b[electronic resource] 210 $aGermany $c[s.n.]$d1603 215 $aOnline resource ([8], 272 p) 300 $aReproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. 700 $aParacelsus$f1493-1541.$0160727 801 0$bUk-CbPIL 801 1$bUk-CbPIL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910481278603321 996 $a2: Nobilis, ... Theophrasti Bombast, ... Tomus genuinus secundus. Tradens fundamenta, quibus verae & genuinae medicinae ars superstructa, & exquibus solis illa addiscipossit.$92274234 997 $aUNINA