Title: Adolf Keller
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.
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, Clergy, biography, Switzerland, biography, Barth, karl, 1886-1968, Bell, g. k. a. (george kennedy allen), 1883-1958, Soederblom, nathan, 1866-1931
Places: Switzerland
People: Charles S. Macfarland, Karl Barth (1886-1968), Adolf Keller (1872-1963), G. K. A. Bell (1883-1958), Nathan Söderblom (1866-1931)
Time periods: 20th century