Author : Marianne Jehle-Wildberger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620321076
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Book Synopsis Adolf Keller by : Marianne Jehle-Wildberger
Download or read book Adolf Keller written by Marianne Jehle-Wildberger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 oft 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' book is an important contribution to twentieth-century church history and to the history of the twentieth century in general.