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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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Swiss Theologian Karl Barth has had a vast influence on Visser 't Hooft.

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"In Visser 't Hooft we lose a God-given architect," one council staffer commented, "and in Blake we get an energetic manager."

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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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Aloof and often sensitive to criticism, Visser 't Hooft has been primarily a scholar-diplomat, learned enough to hold his own on any divinity-school faculty.

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Also see: pp. 177-179. page 134 307 Visser 't Hooft, op. cit., pp. 66-67; Touw, op. cit.,

From The Grey Book by Snoek, Johan Martinus