Word: vischer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Justification for the historic step came from Swiss Reformed Theologian Lukas Vischer, 34, in a report on the third session of the Vatican Council. Vischer, a World Council observer at Vatican II since its beginning, argued that despite the reluctance of some conservative Catholics to build links with other churches, the council's decree on ecumenism "is an obvious effort to overcome the estrangement of centuries and bring about a relationship of mutual respect and understanding. Whether we like it or not, we find ourselves in fellowship with the Roman Catholic Church. Withdrawal into our own domestic affairs...
...Berlin, the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, named as its delegate Dr. Edmund Schlink, a Lutheran ecumenical scholar from Heidelberg University. Meeting in Paris, the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches agreed to send two observers, and named as one of them Dr. Lukas Vischer from the council's permanent secretariat in Geneva. An expert on Catholicism, Dr. Vischer is little known in ecumenical circles. He is an ecclesiastical technician, capable of accurate theological reporting, but he clearly does not have the prestige or stature to speak for the World Council in Rome...