Douglas Horton and the Ecumenical Impulse in American Religion (Harvard Theological Studies)
Publisher: Harvard Divinity School
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780674009653
Subjects: Biography: general; Denominations of American origin; Ecumenism; 20th century; General; Individual Theologians And Their Works (General); Biography / Autobiography; Religious; Religion; USA; Horton, Douglas,; Christianity - History - Protestant; Horton, Douglas; United States; 1891-1968; Biography; Clergy; Ecumenists; United Church of Christ
Description: "Throughout his life Douglas Horton, a significant but surprisingly un-heralded twentieth-century religious leader, worked tirelessly for church and world unity under the broad banner of ecumenism. His efforts bore fruit in a variety of venues. Horton introduced Americans to the work of Swiss theologian Karl Barth through his translation of The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928). He was the chief architect of the denominational merger that formed the United Church of Christ (1957).

He presided over the transformation of the Harvard Divinity School from a near moribund institution to a significant center of religious learning (1955-1959). Toward the end of his life he helped orchestrate the Protestant presence at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). This book presents the first biography of Douglas Horton; it investigates the ecumenical movement as refracted through Horton's extraordinary career."--BOOK JACKET.