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Adolf Keller (1872-1963) : ecumenist, world citizen, philanthropist /
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 e...
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| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Cambridge :
Lutterworth,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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 Union
- APIDEP: 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 World
- Friendship
- Conclusion.
- The Significance of Adolf Keller
- Chronology
- List of Persons
- Bibliography
- Back cover.