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Adolf Keller : ecumenist, world citizen, philanthropist / Marianne Jehle-Wildberger ; translated by Mark Kyburz with John Peck.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: BX6.5 .J4 2013

Overview

Summary: "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."--Publisher's description.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Jehle-Wildberger, Marianne.
Published: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2013
Locale: Switzerland
Other Authors/Editors: Kyburz, Mark, 1963-
Peck, John.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
ISBN: 1620321076
9781620321072
Additional Form: Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
Physical Description: x, 290 pages ; 23 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Ecumenical movement--History--20th century. Ecumenical movement--Biography. Clergy--Switzerland--Biography. Church and social problems--International cooperation. Biographies. 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.

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