Word: visser
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Willem Adolf Visser't Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . L.D.D...
...Frontiers. Last week Dr. Willem Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council, dropped into Chicago, to make arrangements for next year's meeting. Said Dutchman Visser 't Hooft, speaking of eschatology: "The theme of hope was chosen because of its relevance in the world today, when so many areas show a certain hopelessness, while elsewhere there are certain false hopes, e.g., under a totalitarian ideology such as the Communist . . . There are two dimensions to Christian hope-one dealing in the present and one dealing in the future . . . Both dimensions of Christian hope are vital...
Most of the world's Protestant leaders will come to Evanston. Among them: Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Bishops G. Bromley Oxnam and Henry Knox Sherrill and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr from the U.S.* But Dr. Visser 't Hooft was hopeful that delegates from the Iron Curtain churches would be there, too. Said he: "It's a way to emphasize Christian fellowship, and some of these churches have a great deal to give...
Tullio and his friends felled trees, cracked rocks and poured foundations. More & more people turned up to lend a hand. Some were prominent churchmen, like Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, World Council of Churches secretary-general, who laid bricks, and Anglican Bishop Stephen Neill, who trundled wheelbarrows of stones. British judges, French attorneys, professional men from all over Europe worked side by side with 1,000-odd young men & women to build a village devoted to Christian labor and prayer...
Wider & Deeper. At least one Protestant leader welcomed the Vatican directive as a step-though not a very big one -in the right direction. Said the World Council of Churches' General Secretary Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft in Geneva: "The very fact that such a document is issued at all is a clear indication that the ecumenical movement has begun to make its influence felt among the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church. We can only rejoice that such is the case." But he noted with regret that the directive "remains below the level reached...