- Summary
- Collection of documents from a section of the World Council of Churches Archives, dealing with Germany and fifteen other countries during the period 1932-1957. Documents include: newspapers, press clippings, press releases, telegrams, correspondence, minutes, manuscripts and personal notes. The bulk of the material relates to Germany and covers the issues and events of the war as well as the beginning years of the World Council of Churches. Correspondents include: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bishop Bell, H. Schönveld, Karl Barth, James McDonald, Georges Casalis, Adolf Freudenberg, Martin Niemöller, Bishop Dibelius, Gerhart Riegner, Marc Boegner, and Willem Aldolf Visser 't Hooft.
- Format
- Microform
- Author/Creator
- World Council of Churches.
- Published
- Leiden : IDC, 2000
- Locale
- Germany
- Biography
- In 1937, the Oxford Life and Work Conference "Church, Community and State" approved a merger with the Faith and Order movement that would form the World Council of Churches (WCC), but its official organization was deferred by the outbreak of the Second World War until August 1948, when representatives of 147 churches assembled in Amsterdam to constitute the WCC. Today the WCC is a worldwide fellowship of churches from different traditions: Orthodox, Anglican, Old Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, and Pentecostal.
- Notes
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Guide shelved under: BX6.W78 W67 2000
Texts mostly in German but also in English, Chinese, Danish, Spanish, Estonian, French, Greek, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Czech, Yugoslavian.
Printed guide, organized by country.
