"A Bold Enterprise": The Ecumenical Review and the Beginnings of the World Council of Churches

The need for an "authoritative, Christian, ecumenical review" to serve as a platform for the nascent ecumenical movement was one of the elements of the proposals to bring together the movements on Faith and Order and Life and Work to form a single World Council of Churches (WCC). This arti...

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Subtitles:The World Council of Churches at 70
Main Author: Brown, Stephen 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: The ecumenical review
Year: 2018, Volume: 70, Issue: 3, Pages: 400-415
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDJ Ecumenism
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B World Council of Churches
B Journals
B The Ecumenical Review
B Visser 't Hooft
B Christendom
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Summary:The need for an "authoritative, Christian, ecumenical review" to serve as a platform for the nascent ecumenical movement was one of the elements of the proposals to bring together the movements on Faith and Order and Life and Work to form a single World Council of Churches (WCC). This article traces the main stages in creating such an ecumenical journal from the Oxford and Edinburgh conferences of 1937 to the launch of The Ecumenical Review immediately before the founding assembly of the WCC in Amsterdam in 1948, and the particular role played in this by Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, the WCC's first general secretary.
ISSN:1758-6623
Contains:Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/erev.12384