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A rigorously researched biography of the celebrated Swiss theologian, one of the leading lights of the ecumenical movement in the early twentieth century.
The Swiss theologian Adolf Keller was the leading ecumenist on the European continent between the two world wars. In this book the historian Marianne Jehle-Wildberger delineates his life and its achievements.
Based on research in forty archives in Europe and the United States, a picture emerges that shows a wonderful man who was a personal friend of Karl Barth, C. G.Jung, Thomas Mann, and Albert Schweitzer - and thus who was influenced by the spiritual tendencies of the twentieth century.
Keller cooperated closely with the National Council of Churches. His Central Bureau of Relief in Geneva (Inter-Church Aid) was supported by American churches. His lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary on "Religion and Revolution" (1933) - in which he was one of the first commentators to denounce National Socialism in Germany - set a new standard of political discussion and are unsurpassed.
Marianne Jehle-Wildbergers's book is an important contribution to twentieth-century church history and to the history of the twentieth century in general.
The Swiss theologian Adolf Keller was the leading ecumenist on the European continent between the two world wars. In this book the historian Marianne Jehle-Wildberger delineates his life and its achievements.
Based on research in forty archives in Europe and the United States, a picture emerges that shows a wonderful man who was a personal friend of Karl Barth, C. G.Jung, Thomas Mann, and Albert Schweitzer - and thus who was influenced by the spiritual tendencies of the twentieth century.
Keller cooperated closely with the National Council of Churches. His Central Bureau of Relief in Geneva (Inter-Church Aid) was supported by American churches. His lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary on "Religion and Revolution" (1933) - in which he was one of the first commentators to denounce National Socialism in Germany - set a new standard of political discussion and are unsurpassed.
Marianne Jehle-Wildbergers's book is an important contribution to twentieth-century church history and to the history of the twentieth century in general.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 300
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
25 July 2013
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780718893156
Format: Paperback
This is a modest book, translated sensitively and published by a small press which has shown the courage of its convictions and given us something truly important when most other houses would hardly have bothered. Keller certainly did matter once - and he should matter to us still.
— Andrew Chandler
This book is an important contribution to twentieth-century church histroy and to the history of the twentieth century in general.
— Andrew Chandler
This book is an important contribution to twentieth-century church histroy and to the history of the twentieth century in general.
Introduction
Abbreviations
1 From Village Boy to Pastor
2 Entering Ecumenism: Peace Building and Bridging Europe and America
3 The Ecumenical Movement: Life and Work and the Central Bureau for Relief
4 Crisis and a New Beginning at Life and Work, and from the Central Bureau to Inter-Church Aid
5 Opposing National Socialism, Supporting German Refugees
6 World War II and the Postwar Period
Conclusion: The Significance of Adolf Keller
Chronology
List of Persons
Bibliography
Abbreviations
1 From Village Boy to Pastor
2 Entering Ecumenism: Peace Building and Bridging Europe and America
3 The Ecumenical Movement: Life and Work and the Central Bureau for Relief
4 Crisis and a New Beginning at Life and Work, and from the Central Bureau to Inter-Church Aid
5 Opposing National Socialism, Supporting German Refugees
6 World War II and the Postwar Period
Conclusion: The Significance of Adolf Keller
Chronology
List of Persons
Bibliography