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Adolf Keller (1872-1963) : ecumentist, world citizen, philanthropist
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The Swiss theologian Adolf Keller (1872-1963) was the leading ecumenist on the European continent between the two world wars. In this book the historian Marianne Jehle-Wildberger delineates the ach...
The Swiss theologian Adolf Keller (1872-1963) was the leading ecumenist on the European continent between the two world wars. In this book the historian Marianne Jehle-Wildberger delineates the achievements of his life. Based on research in forty archives in Europe and the United States, a picture emerges that shows a remarkable man who was a personal friend of Karl Barth, Carl Jung, Thomas Mann, and Albert Schweitzer - and thus who was influenced by the spiritual tendencies of the twentieth century. Keller cooperated closely with the National Council of Churches and his Central Bureau of Reli
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- Marianne Jehle-Wildberger ; translated by Mark Kyburz with John Peck
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- English
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- Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, 2013
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- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780718893156, 0718893158, 9780718841690, 0718841697, 1299717829
- OCLC
- ocn884280869
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Abbreviations; 1. From Village Boy to Pastor; Childhood, Youth and Student Days; In Cosmopolitan Cairo (1896-1899); "Auf Burg" and Geneva; Marriage and Family Life; Social Commitment; Life-Concern as Life-Stance; 2. Entering Ecumenism; A Journey To Scotland (1918); World War I and the League of Nations; Pivotal Experiences (1919); The Driving Force Behind the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches; Building Bridges; Karl Barth and the Theology of Crisis; 3. The Ecumenical Movement
- Nathan Soderblom and the Founding of Life and Work (1920)"A New Brotherly Community of Helping Love"; "Evidence of an Ecumenical Ethose"; "Leadership Programme"; 1925: Stockholm, Keller, and the Great Moment of Ecumenism; Keller and the Ecumenical Movement; The International Christian Social Institute in Geneva; 4. Crisis and a New Beginning at Life and Work, and from the Central Bureau to Inter-Church Aid; The Crisis and Life and Work and Keller's Rescue Plan; The Department for Education and Extension, and New Crises; From the Central Bureau to Inter-Church Aid
- Combatting Hunger in the Soviet UnionAPIDEP: Affordable Loans, Not Humble Donations; Anticipating Bossey; 5. Opposing National Socialism, Supporting German Refugees; "Obedience to the Gospel, Not to Blood, the Race, the People, the Idea"; The "Church Struggle"; "Church and State"; Inter-Church Aid and its Pioneering Work for German Refugees; 6. World War II and the Postwar Period; "We Have Something to Say - Together with Our Catholic Brethren" ; New Refugees; The Ecumenical Seminar in the United States; Bidding Farewell to Inter-Church Aid and the Ecumenical Seminar
- Initiating the Reconstruction of the WorldFriendship; Conclusion; The Significance of Adolf Keller; Chronology; List of Persons; Bibliography; Back cover
Subjects
- Keller, Adolf, 1872-1963.
- Barth, Karl, 1886-1968.
- Bell, G. K. A. (George Kennedy Allen), 1883-1958.
- Macfarland, Charles S.
- Söderblom, Nathan, 1866-1931.
- World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service.
- Ecumenical movement -- History -- 20th century.
- Ecumenical movement -- Biography.
- Clergy -- Switzerland -- Biography.
- Church and social problems -- International cooperation.