Word: hooft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite those exuberant closing moments, however, the fifth septennial assembly of the World Council of Churches was a hesitant gathering at an uneasy time. Just before it opened, Founding Father W.A. Visser 't Hooft remarked: "If the meeting does not produce a new sense of purpose and dynamism, the council will be in trouble. It is time the churches stop looking at the council as a sort of fringe phenomenon." Last week, as the assembly ended, TIME's Religion Editor Richard Ostling cabled from Nairobi that the World Council is in as much danger as ever of being...
...Hooft has led the team, dropping in 40 points against Leicester and 19 in the B.C. game...
Potter becomes the third man to occupy the office since the World Council was founded in 1948. Scholarly Dutchman W.A. Visser 't Hooft, one of the organization's founding fathers, held the post until 1966, when he was succeeded by noted U.S. Presbyterian Ecumenist Eugene Carson Blake. Now 65, Blake is due to retire this fall. Potter will then take up a five-year term as ecumenical spokesman for more than 250 member denominations of the World Council, including Protestants, Anglicans and Eastern Orthodox -some 400 million Christians in all. Since Protestants form the core of the organization...
...response to these pressures, the World Council is already changing its style and philosophy, largely as a result of Blake's prodding during his two years as its chief officer. He is a far more hard-driving administrator than his predecessor, Dutch Theologian Willem Visser 't Hooft. In Geneva, Blake, 62, presides over the council's starkly modern, three-story ecumenical center with all the dispatch of a top business executive. His brisk ways may occasionally irritate some Europeans (who make up a majority of the center's 336-man staff), but he also displays...
...contrast between the two men goes considerably beyond personality. In his 18 years as secretary-general, Visser 't Hooft was interested more in theological questions than day-to-day administration. Blake, the former Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, sees his duties as primarily pastoral. To give young church dissidents a greater sense of participation in council affairs, he recently invited 75 staff members to a two-day get-together near Montreux. Told they could speak their minds freely, they proceeded to tear apart everything from the way the council organizes its assemblies to the management...