'Intimately Associated for Many Years'

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'Intimately Associated for Many Years' is written by Gerhard Besier and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1443880116 (ISBN 10) and 9781443880114 (ISBN 13).

The Anglican Bishop George Bell (of Chichester) and the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Willem A. Visserâ (TM)t Hooft (of Geneva) exchanged hundreds of letters between 1938 and 1958. The correspondence, reproduced and commented upon here, mirrors the efforts made across the ecumenical movement to unite the Christian churches and also to come to terms with an age of international crisis and conflict. In these first decades of the World Council, it was widely felt that the Church could make a noteworthy contribution to the mitigation of political tensions all over the world. Thatâ (TM)s why Bell and Visserâ (TM)t Hooft talked not only to bishops and the clergy, but also to the prime ministers and presidents of many countries. They raised their voices in memoranda and published their public letters in important newspapers. This was the World Councilâ (TM)s most successful period.