Background
He was born in Drammen, but grew up in Sarpsborg.
He was born in Drammen, but grew up in Sarpsborg.
Carl Fredrik Wisløff graduated with the candidate.theol.
He is considered among the most important lay preachers in 20th-century Norway. Degree in 1931, and was hired as a priest at Vaterland the next year. He was also hired as the first secretary of the Norges kristelige studentog gymnasiastlag, and also founded the organization"s magazine, Credo.
In 1940, he was appointed as a vicar in Birkenes.
Jeg vet på hvem jeg tror
In 1946, Wisløff published Jeg vet på hvem jeg tror ("I Know in Whom I Believe"). In 2008, the liberal newspaper Dagbladet recognized the book as among the twenty-five most influential prose books in post-1945 Norway.
Academic career
In 1947, Wisløff was hired to head the priest"s seminary at the MF Norwegian School of Theology. He also chaired the Norges kristelige studentog gymnasiastlag, from 1948 to 1960.
He took the doctorate in 1958 on the thesis Nattverd og messe ("Communion and Mass"), which was translated into English (as "The Gift of Communion") in 1964 and German in 1969.
He joined the executive committee of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in 1959, and was appointed as professor of church history at the MF School of Theology in 1961. In 1967, he took over the presidency of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, a post he held until 1979. He retired as a professor in 1975.
Among his preaching books were Ordet fra Guds munn (1951), Ordet om korset (1973), Lyset skinner i mørket (1976) and Daglig brød (1983).
Other books include Politikk og kristendom (1961), volume one and three of Norsk kirkehistorie (1966, 1971), Kristne kirkesamfunn (1974), Den lutherske bekjennelse og katolisismen (1980), 2000 år medical Kristus (1981) and Martin Luthers teologi (1984). Wisløff died in June 2004, following short-term illness.
His 100th anniversary was commemorated by the Norwegian Lutheran Mission. He was also honoured with two Festschrifts, both on his seventieth birthday.