'Intimately Associated for Many Years': George K. A. Bell's and Willem A. Visser 't Hooft's Common Life-Work in the Service of the Church Universal  Contributor(s): Besier, Gerhard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1443880116 ISBN-13: 9781443880114 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $124.69 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Letters - Religion | Ecumenism & Interfaith - Religion | Christianity - History |
Physical Information: 598 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: The Anglican Bishop George Bell (of Chichester) and the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Willem A. Visser't Hooft (of Geneva) exchanged hundreds of letters between 1938 and 1958. The correspondence, reproduced and commented upon here, mirrors the efforts made across the ecumenical movement to unite the Christian churches and also to come to terms with an age of international crisis and conflict. In these first decades of the World Council, it was widely felt that the Church could make a noteworthy contribution to the mitigation of political tensions all over the world. That's why Bell and Visser't Hooft talked not only to bishops and the clergy, but also to the prime ministers and presidents of many countries. They raised their voices in memoranda and published their public letters in important newspapers. This was the World Council's most successful period. |