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The Swiss theologian Adolf Keller was the leading ecumenist on the European continent between the two world wars. In this book the historian Marianne Jehle-Wildberger delineates his life and its achievements.
Based on research in forty archives in Europe and the United States, a picture emerges that shows a wonderful man who was a personal friend of Karl Barth, C. G.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. His Central Bureau of Relief in Geneva (Inter-Church Aid) was supported by American churches. His lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary on "Religion and Revolution" (1933) - in which he was one of the first commentators to denounce National Socialism in Germany - set a new standard of political discussion and are unsurpassed.
Marianne Jehle-Wildbergers’s book is an important contribution to twentieth-century church history and to the history of the twentieth century in general.
Table of Contents
Tables of Content
Introduction
Abbreviations
1 From Village Boy to Pastor
2 Entering Ecumenism: Peace Building and Bridging Europe and America
3 The Ecumenical Movement: Life and Work and the Central Bureau for Relief
4 Crisis and a New Beginning at Life and Work, and from the Central Bureau to Inter-Church Aid
5 Opposing National Socialism, Supporting German Refugees
6 World War II and the Postwar Period
Conclusion: The Significance of Adolf Keller
Chronology
List of Persons
Bibliography
Introduction
Abbreviations
1 From Village Boy to Pastor
2 Entering Ecumenism: Peace Building and Bridging Europe and America
3 The Ecumenical Movement: Life and Work and the Central Bureau for Relief
4 Crisis and a New Beginning at Life and Work, and from the Central Bureau to Inter-Church Aid
5 Opposing National Socialism, Supporting German Refugees
6 World War II and the Postwar Period
Conclusion: The Significance of Adolf Keller
Chronology
List of Persons
Bibliography