The Right Reverend Bo Giertz | |
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Bishop of Gothenburg | |
![]() Bishop Giertz in early 1950s | |
Church | Church of Sweden |
Diocese | Diocese of Gothenburg |
In office | 1949–1970 |
Predecessor | Carl Block |
Successor | Bertil Gärtner |
Orders | |
Ordination | 28 December 1934 |
Consecration | 22 May 1949 by Erling Eidem |
Personal details | |
Born | Bo Harald Giertz August 31, 1905 |
Died | July 12, 1998 Djursholm, Uppland, Sweden | (aged 92)
Buried | Torpa, Östergötland, Sweden |
Nationality | Swedish |
Denomination | Lutheran |
Parents | Knut Harald Giertz and Anna Ericsson |
Spouse | (1) Ingrid Andrén (2) Elisabeth Heurlin (3) Karin Lindén |
Children | Lars, Birgitta, Ingrid, Martin |
Occupation | theologian, writer |
Profession | clergy |
Education | Ba.Th. |
Alma mater | Uppsala University |
Motto | Verbum crucis Dei virtus |
Coat of arms | ![]() |
Bo Harald Giertz (Swedish: [ˈbuː ˈjæʈːʂ]; 31 August 1905 – 12 July 1998) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian, novelist and bishop of the Gothenburg Lutheran Diocese from 1949 to 1970. By the time he became bishop, he was already quite well known in Sweden and elsewhere both as an author and as a priest. He worked hard to promote western Swedish Pietism, an outlook that strongly resembled Neo-Lutheranism. Mostly it was a piety that took Scripture seriously, though not in a fundamentalist, literalist sense, and that centered Christian life on sacraments and prayer. Giertz's combination of pietist pastoral care with High Church Lutheran theology, which can also be noticed in his novels, gained for him a wide readership and made his novels as well as non-fiction books about Christian faith popular in Scandinavia. Giertz wrote more than 600 works but is known in the English-speaking world mostly for his book The Hammer of God.
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