Anders Wiberg

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Anders Wiberg
Born(1816-07-17)July 17, 1816
Vi, Hälsingland, Sweden
DiedNovember 5, 1887(1887-11-05) (aged 71)
Stockholm, Sweden
OccupationPreacher, missionary
MovementBaptist Church

Anders Wiberg (17 July 1816– 5 November 1887) was a preacher, missionary, and leader of the early Swedish Baptist movement.

Wiberg was born in Vi in parish, Hälsingland. He was educated at Uppsala University[1] and became a priest in the Church of Sweden. He got to know several of the figures in the growing Baptist revival movement and his views on the state church became more skeptical. After a visit to preacher Johann Gerhard Oncken in Hamburg, Wiberg came to agree with Baptist teachings regarding baptism.[2]

He developed his teachings on baptism in the book Vilken bör döpas och varuti består dopet? ('Who should be baptized and what does baptism consist of?') in 1852, which sparked a fierce debate in which  [sv],  [sv] and Fredrik Gabriel Hedberg made high-profile contributions.[3] The same year he was baptized by F.O. Nilsson in Copenhagen.

Wiberg spent three years in the United States to learn more about the American Baptist movement, working for the American Baptist Publication Society. Wiberg returned to Sweden in 1855, where he became leader of the first Baptist church in Stockholm, which had been founded the year before.[1][4] He began intensive work to strengthen the new movement throughout the country. Among his collaborators were brothers ,  [sv], and  [sv]. A confession of faith written by Wiberg was adopted, a training course for preachers was begun, and from 1856 the new movement had its own publication, Evangelisten, edited by Wiberg. The publication was to play a large role in the spread of Baptist churches in Norway and Finland as well; his writings were brought to Åland and contributed to the start of the early Finnish Baptist movement.[1][3][5] Wiberg was one of the leaders who worked to gather the Swedish Baptist churches for their first general conference in 1857; this was to become the Baptist Union of Sweden in 1889.

Wiberg died 5 November 1887 in Stockholm.

Bibliography[]

  • Hvilken bör döpas och hvari består dopet? (1852, Uppsala)
  • Det kristliga dopet (1854, Philadelphia)
  • Den heliga skrifts lära om det christliga dopet (1855, Philadelphia) (an edition also printed in Stockholm)
  • Läran om helgelsen (1869)
  • De kristnas enhet (1879)
  • Svar på lektor Waldenströms skrift: Barndopets historia (1880)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Lindvall, Magnus. "ANDERS WIBERG | VÄCKELSEMAN OCH SAMFUNDSLEDARE". Archived from the original on 2012-01-19.
  2. ^ Lindvall, Magnus (October 1987). "Anders Wiberg, Swedish Revivalist and Baptist Leader" (PDF). . 32.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Carlquist, Gunnar, ed. (1929). Svensk uppslagsbok. Bd 2. Malmö: . p. 42.
  4. ^ Westin, Gunnar (1955). Den kristna friförsamlingen genom tiderna - Martyrer och frihetskämpar. . p. 295.
  5. ^ Sundquist, Alfons (January 1954). "Glimpses of the Baptist Work in Finland" (PDF). . 91.
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