Word: ecumenists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is the Ecumenical Century, it is fitting that the leading ecumenist was born in the first year of it. His father was a lawyer in the Dutch city of Haarlem; the family name (pronounced fisser toaft) means "fisher at the head''-the chief fisherman. Willem-then called muis (mouse) for his thin, sharp face, but now nicknamed Wim-was the gayest of three brothers, excelling at hockey and tennis, and good, though not brilliant, in school. His father was shocked when Wim said he was thinking of becoming a pastor. "You will have a hard life...
...Leiden with a dissertation on the background of the social gospel in the U.S. But he was not ordained because the Remonstrant Church, to which he belonged, stipulated that all ministers must be pastors, and young Yisser 't Hooft had been tapped by the late great U.S. ecumenist John R. Mott to become secretary of the Y.M.C.A. World's Alliance in Geneva. The Swiss city has been his headquarters ever since, and having since been ordained in the Swiss Reformed Church, he preaches every now and then. He married fragile-looking Netherlander Henriette Philippine Jacoba Boddaert, with whom...