Adolf Keller
Subtitle: ecumenist, world citizen, philanthropist
By: Marianne Jehle-Wildberger ; translated by Mark Kyburz with John Peck
Contributors: Kyburz, Mark, 1963-; Peck, John
Publisher: Cascade Books; Wipf & Stock Pub
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781620321072
Subjects: Ecumenical movement; World Council of Churches; World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service; Clergy; Church and social problems; International cooperation; Biography; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.