Word: visser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't an easy meeting, but it was a good one," said General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches, as the council's tenth annual Central Committee meeting in Rhodes adjourned last week. The meeting was good for its air-clearing exchanges between Protestant and Orthodox delegates -and even, offstage, with the Roman Catholic observers to Rhodes (TIME, Aug. 31). It was also hard because it did not produce the one big thing the W.C.C. had hoped for: a real breakdown of the barriers separating the Protestant and Orthodox churches...
...Vitaly M. Borovoy, 43, professor of ecclesiastical history at Leningrad Theological Academy, had already spent three weeks studying the World Council at its headquarters in Geneva, and a delegation of W.C.C. leaders will return the visit in Moscow next December. Said the World Council's General Secretary Willem Visser 't' Hooft: "The Russian Church is at the moment in the process of discovering the World Council. If all goes well, it will mean that our relations will develop with churches in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Rumania and Poland...
General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches commented that much would depend on "how ecumenical the council will be, in composition and spirit." There are "enormous" possibilities for cooperation (e.g., joint action against Communist oppression, prevention of atomic warfare, the problems of Christians in non-Christian countries), "provided that the Vatican is willing to admit and accept dogmatic differences." In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated that the Anglican Church would send an observer, if invited, but a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was dour. "We are very keen on the ecumenical...
...Roman Catholic priests were present as observers. Also on hand were Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Dr. John Mackay, honorary chairman of the International Missionary Council. South African Novelist Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton was named one of a five-man committee to explore ways and means of developing the Ibadan conference into a continuing association...
...fourth triennial conference of the Inter-Seminary Movement, sponsored by the National Council of Churches at Ohio's Oberlin College, The Netherlands' Dr. Willem A. Visser't Hooft told 500 Protestant theology students to be both "slaves and spokesmen'' of Christianity. Said Dr. Visser't Hooft. general secretary of the World Council of Churches and a minister of The Netherlands Reformed Church: "There is a new search for authority in the world today [and ] insofar as we are slaves and spokesmen, the minister has the same authority as Christ." This authority is "total...