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Record Nr.

UNINA9910393957703321

Autore

Zeilstra Jurjen A (Jurjen Albert), <1961->

Titolo

Visser 't Hooft, 1900-1985 : Living for the Unity of the Church / / Jurjen A. Zeilstra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-04-077710-4

1-003-70921-4

90-485-5187-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (598 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JansenHenry

Disciplina

200.9

Soggetti

Theologians - Netherlands

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 542-563) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The World Opens Up, 1900-1924 -- 2. The School of International Encounter -- 3. Church Unity in Wartime, 1939-1945 -- 4. From ‘Spiritual Contact’ to Political Involvement -- 5. Towards a World Council of Churches -- 6. General Secretary of the World Council of Churches 1948-1966 -- 7. The Cold War, the Unity of the Church and Eastern Orthodoxy, 1948-1966 -- 8. Roman Catholic Contacts -- 9. Obsolete Institutionalism? -- 10. In the Mirror of Rembrandt and the Perspectives of Others -- Taking Stock -- Sources and Literature Consulted -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

God's diplomat, the pope of the ecumenical movement, but also an acerbic theologian and a difficult person: this is how journalists characterised Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft (1900-1985). He was one of the best-known Dutch theologians outside the Netherlands and he left his mark on the world church. Even at an early age he made profound efforts in support of international ecumenical youth and student organisations (Dutch Student Christian Movement, YMCA and World Student Christian Federation). He led the World Council of Churches during its formative stages (from 1938), and after its formal



establishment in 1948 became its first general secretary, serving until 1966. To Visser 't Hooft, the unity of the church was both an article of faith and of a pragmatic organisation of church influence in a disunited world.