Word: visser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian Century noted with considerable concern that the man who has guided the World Council of Churches since its formation fifteen years ago would be stepping down from his position as General Secretary "within a year or two." The ecumenical magazine pondered the chances of replacing Willem Adolph Visser't Hooft and concluded that it was not possible. For Dr. Visser't Hooft is at once a kind of charismatic leader-prophet, an astute theologian, and a gifted diplomat. His successor may be one or some of these things, but it is unlikely that he will be them...
Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, will meet informally with interested students in the Lowell House Junior Common Room today between...
Willem A. Visser't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches since 1948, will deliver the first of four William Belden Noble Lectures, entitled "The Substance of the Ecumenical Encounter," at 8 p.m. tonight in Memorial Church. Dr. Visser't Hooft will speak tonight on "Right or Wrong in Inter-Church Relationships...
...major address on the meaning of council membership, General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft raised the question of whether the council could be described in ecclesiological terms, although he admitted that the council was "neither the Church nor a church nor the superchurch. The World Council is, by its very nature, the servant of churches" that find in membership "a deeper understanding of the nature of the church and find new opportunities to manifest its true meaning...
...delegation from the Patriarchate of Moscow, argued that it had not occurred to Orthodox bishops that the council "re gards itself as having ecclesiological significance." The Rev. Paul Verghese of the Syrian Orthodox Church, who is director of the council's Division of Ecumenical Action, challenged Visser 't Hooft's assumption that council membership implies a readiness to join in a dialogue with other churches involving mutual correction. "If this had been known to the churches," he said, "there are many who would not belong." Vis ser 't Hooft, who is Verghese's superior...