Anders Nygren

The Right Reverend Anders Nygren
Bishop of Lund
Church	Church of Sweden
Diocese	Lund
Elected	1949
In office	1949–1958
Predecessor	Edvard Magnus Rodhe
Successor	Nils Bolander
Orders
Ordination	3 June 1912
Consecration	22 May 1949 by Erling Eidem
Personal details
Born	(1890-11-15)15 November 1890 Gothenburg, Sweden
Died	20 October 1978(1978-10-20) (aged 87) Lund, Sweden
Buried	Norra cemetery, Lund
Nationality	Swede
Spouse	Irmgard Brandin
Children	4
Alma mater	Lund University

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.

References

• Jarlert, Anders : "Nygren, Anders", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, vol. 27, pp. 692–698.

Further reading

• Lundensian Theology. Dictionary article by Wesley J. Wildman including a discussion of Nygren's thinking and biographical details.
• Thomas Jay Oord: The Nature of Love: A Theology. Chalice Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8272-0828-5

External links

• Works by or about Anders Nygren at the Internet Archive