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392 VIII. THE MODERN PERIOD (A.D. 18121910).
theology emphasises more strongly the objective element
in the life of Christendom, the Upsala lays more stress on
the subjective. The Lund theology is penetrated by the
conviction that false subjectivism is the greatest danger of
Protestantism. Upsala theology recognizes that true sub
jectivism is the necessary condition of Protestant life." In
other words, the theology of Upsala was, during the last
century, much more of a philosophy, in which the idea of
the Church was tolerated rather than loved. Dr. Soder-
blom, who has written some interesting pages on this sub
ject, in a brilliant address to the Student Volunteer meet
ing at Huskvarna, in 1909, entitled The Individual and
the Church^ expressed himself as follows:19 "
Attachment
to the Church was not a leading feature of Upsala
theology, still less did it create enthusiasm. Rather was
it felt as a burden. An inspiring conception of the
Church, penetrated with enthusiasm, was manifested later
on by S. A. Fries, evidently in connection with (the
philosopher) Bostrom s Ideal of an Established Church,
and by J. A. Eklund (Bishop of Carlstad) in the form of
the ideal of a national Church, which he assigned to the
period of our political greatness." The idea, therefore,
even then, was not a general one like that of the Lund
theologians, of an eternal world-wide society, founded at
Pentecost, and embracing the best efforts of all men, but a
partial and patriotic one of narrower scope and compass.
The two may, of course, be united, as they are to-day by
the professors of Upsala, in an attempt to define what the
Church of Sweden may do as a constituent part of the
universal Church, and to encourage men to labour to realize
this in action as its contribution to a united offering of
service to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ (Soderblom :
I.e., pp. 25 foil.).
Before the Church Times had been in existence ten years
the editors were called upon to separate. Bring became
19
Den Enskilde och Kyrkan af Nathan Soderblom, foredrag
ballet vid Studentmotet i Huskvarna, 1909, p. 20, Uppsala, 1909.
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