Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Jehle-Wildberger, Marianne

Publication

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kyburz, Mark, 1963-
• Peck, John.

Description

x, 290 p.; 23 cm.

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{u2019}s book is an important contribution to twentieth-century church history and to the history of the twentieth century in general." -- Publisher's description.

Subject

• Keller, Adolf, 1872-1963
• Barth, Karl, 1886-1968
• Bell, G. K. A. 1883-1958
• Macfarland, Charles S
• Söderblom, Nathan, 1866-1931
• World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service
• 1900-1999
• Ecumenical movement > History > 20th century
• Ecumenical movement > Biography
• Clergy > Switzerland > Biography
• Church and social problems > International cooperation

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From village boy to pastor -- Entering ecumenism : peacebuilding and bridging Europe and America -- The ecumenical movement : life and work and the Central Bureau for Relief -- Crisis and a new beginning at life and work, and from the Central Bureau to Inter-Church Aid -- Opposing National Socialism, supporting German refugees -- World War II and the postwar period -- Conclusion: The significance of Adolf Keller.

ISBN

• 1620321076 (pbk.)
• 9781620321072 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012285376

OCLC

• 830526082
• SCSB-10994958

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library