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Visser 't Hooft

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[vis-ert hohft] / ˈvɪs ərt ˌhoʊft /

noun

  1. Willem Adolf 1900–85, Dutch Protestant clergyman and writer: leader in ecumenical movement.


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Visser 't Hooft recalled that Protestants had often voiced another complaint: the absence of any mention of Scripture.

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When the war started, Visser 't Hooft discovered that the smuggling of refugees to freedom combined naturally with the smuggling of information in and out of Holland for the Dutch government-in-exile in London.

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Visser 't Hooft delivered his valedictory as he prepared to turn over the duties and prerogatives of his office to the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, 60, the strong-willed U.S.

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In effect, Speer existed in what the Dutch Protestant theologian Willem Visser 't Hooft has called "a twilight between knowing and not knowing."

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An English translation of this and most of the other documents quoted in this chapter, in Visser 't Hooft, op. cit., passim. page 123 283 Visser 't Hooft, op. cit., pp. 23-24.

From The Grey Book by Johan Martinus Snoek

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