Willem Adolph Visser 't Hooft
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Willem Adolph Visser 't Hooft (1900–1985) was a Dutch theologian and the First general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC).[1]
World Student Christian Federation
During the 1926 World Conference of the YMCA in Helsinki, Visser 't Hooft served as personal assistant to the general secretary of the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), John R. Mott. As general secretary of the WSCF from 1932 on, Visser 't Hooft made his first trip to Asia in 1933 to help organize Christian students there.[1]
Higher Education
Visser 't Hooft wrote a critical study of the "social gospel" movement as his doctoral dissertation for the University of Leiden in 1928.[1]
Publications
- No Other Name: The Choice between Syncretism and Christian Universalism, London, SCM, 1963[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Willem A Visser 't Hooft: WCC general secretary 1948-1966. World Council of Churches (WCC). Retrieved on 3 Jan 2018.
- ↑ Willem Adolph Visser 't Hooft (1963). No Other Name: The Choice between Syncretism and Christian Universalism. Westminster Press.
