Word: visser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Void. The week-long meeting, the first of its kind, was called jointly by the World Council of Churches and the International Missionary Council, to discuss the position of the Protestant churches in Southern and Eastern Asia. In addition to General Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft of the World Council and the International Missionary Council's Chairman John A. Mackay, the meeting included five bishops (from the Philippines, India and Japan), and delegates from almost every country in Asia...
...conferees found nothing to feel smug about. "The imprint of Christian culture in Asia is lighter than the West assumes," said Visser 't Hooft. Said Dr. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary,' who has spent the past two months in the Far East: "There's a tremendous void in the heart of East Asia. The ancient religions are unable to explain the revolutionary changes that are taking place, or have no adequate ideas or attitudes with which to meet them...
...press of the world had been interested in Amsterdam, reported The Netherlands' Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary to the World Council, but not all of the press comment had been favorable. Some papers, said Dr. Visser 't Hooft, had criticized Amsterdam severely for being "a bunch of left-wing socialists talking like regular revolutionaries." Others had sneered at "those bourgeois who will never learn that the world is moving on." The Soviet press had attacked the council as "a new powerful center of a political church." Commented Visser 't Hooft: "They...
Recently the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, went into the Russian zone of Germany, and there found "certain hopeful signs" that men and women might be allowed to worship God after their own fashion and according...
...general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Dr. Willem A. Visser 't Hooft of The Netherlands, had had the idea: a nondenominational institute where young laymen of all nations would be trained to spread Christian ideas and ideals in their own communities and walks of life. John D. Rockefeller Jr. had supplied the money: $500,000. Last week plans for the Ecumenical Institute were well under...