Fire tekststykker knyttet til samemisjonæren Thomas von Westen 1716-1723
Four Texts Concerning Thomas von Westen's Mission among the Sámi 1716-1723. Thomas von Westen (1682-1727) was responsible for a mission concerning the Sámi population in Norway in the early Eighteenth-Century. The mission was initiated by the Danish-Norwegian King Frederik 4th and the Society f...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:25f4558d2f5b45358d88d7e40fe738ad 2023-05-15T18:14:50+02:00 Fire tekststykker knyttet til samemisjonæren Thomas von Westen 1716-1723 Randi Skjelmo 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/4.4157 https://doaj.org/article/25f4558d2f5b45358d88d7e40fe738ad DA EN FR NO SV dan eng fre nor swe Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/1700/article/view/4157 https://doaj.org/toc/1652-4772 https://doaj.org/toc/2001-9866 doi:10.7557/4.4157 1652-4772 2001-9866 https://doaj.org/article/25f4558d2f5b45358d88d7e40fe738ad Sjuttonhundratal, Vol 14 (2017) Thomas von Westen mission education pietism Sámi Denmark-Norway Modern history 1453- D204-475 article 2017 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/4.4157 2022-12-31T01:24:32Z Four Texts Concerning Thomas von Westen's Mission among the Sámi 1716-1723. Thomas von Westen (1682-1727) was responsible for a mission concerning the Sámi population in Norway in the early Eighteenth-Century. The mission was initiated by the Danish-Norwegian King Frederik 4th and the Society for Promoting Lutheran Christianity in Copenhagen 1715. von Westen wrote a significant number of documents concerning the mission. These documents comprise instructions, reports, public correspondence, personal letters and statements. This article concerns four of these texts; a letter to the parish that von Westen worked in when he was appointed leader of missionary work (1716), a letter to the Society for Promoting Lutheran Christianity (1718), the Nærøy manuscript (1723) and finally a letter concerning the establishment of connections to ecclesiastical authorities in Swedish Lapland (1723). Thomas von Westen’s writings reflect his engagement in the mission, his preaching and how he introduced Christianity to the Sámi people by guiding them to personal consciousness and public confession. His documents reflect both his own ambitions and the public interest in the missionary work. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sámi Lapland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Norway Nærøy ENVELOPE(11.256,11.256,64.817,64.817) Sjuttonhundratal 14 85 105 |
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Four Texts Concerning Thomas von Westen's Mission among the Sámi 1716-1723. Thomas von Westen (1682-1727) was responsible for a mission concerning the Sámi population in Norway in the early Eighteenth-Century. The mission was initiated by the Danish-Norwegian King Frederik 4th and the Society for Promoting Lutheran Christianity in Copenhagen 1715. von Westen wrote a significant number of documents concerning the mission. These documents comprise instructions, reports, public correspondence, personal letters and statements. This article concerns four of these texts; a letter to the parish that von Westen worked in when he was appointed leader of missionary work (1716), a letter to the Society for Promoting Lutheran Christianity (1718), the Nærøy manuscript (1723) and finally a letter concerning the establishment of connections to ecclesiastical authorities in Swedish Lapland (1723). Thomas von Westen’s writings reflect his engagement in the mission, his preaching and how he introduced Christianity to the Sámi people by guiding them to personal consciousness and public confession. His documents reflect both his own ambitions and the public interest in the missionary work. |
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Fire tekststykker knyttet til samemisjonæren Thomas von Westen 1716-1723 |
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Fire tekststykker knyttet til samemisjonæren Thomas von Westen 1716-1723 |
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Fire tekststykker knyttet til samemisjonæren Thomas von Westen 1716-1723 |
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Fire tekststykker knyttet til samemisjonæren Thomas von Westen 1716-1723 |
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