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Bible's Strong Comeback Surprises Secular Norway
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jun 06, 2013 03:11am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | SALEHA MOHSIN |
| News Date | Thursday, June 6, 2013 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It may sound like an unlikely No. 1 best-seller for any country, but in Norway — one of the most secular nations in an increasingly godless Europe — the runaway popularity of the Bible has caught the country by surprise. The Scriptures, in a new Norwegian language version, even outpaced "Fifty Shades of Grey" to become Norway's best-selling book.
The sudden burst of interest in God's word has also spread to the stage, with a six-hour play called "Bibelen," Norwegian for "the Bible," drawing 16,000 people in a three-month run that recently ended at one of Oslo's most prominent theaters.
Officials of the Lutheran Church of Norway have stopped short of calling it a spiritual awakening, but they see the newfound interest in the Bible as proof that it still resonates in a country where only 1 percent of the 5 million residents regularly attends church. |
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