A Time to Advance

1967 ◽  
Vol os-18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Donald Black ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
World Mission

(The following paper is an expansion of remarks made on the occasion of the retirement of Dr. Floyd Shacklock as Executive Director of the Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature, Department of the Division of Overseas Ministries of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The original remarks and the outline were prepared by Dr. Donald Black, who serves as Chairman of the Lit-Lit Committee and also the Chairman of the Christian Literature Fund Committee, a special activity related to the Division of World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches. Additional material to fill out the paper has been supplied by the staff of Lit-Lit.)

Mission as Seen from Geneva: A Conversation with Eugene L. Stockwell

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-117
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
World Council ◽  
World Mission ◽  
General Secretary

Eugene L. Stockwell is Director of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where his father was studying theology, and was raised from the age of three in Argentina, where his father served as president of Union Theological Seminary in Buenos Aires. As a young man Stockwell studied and practiced law before deciding to enter Union Theological Seminary (New York) and the ministry. He and his wife worked as United Methodist missionaries for ten years in Uruguay, from 1952 to 1962. This was followed by two years as Latin American Secretary of the Methodist Board of Missions and then eight years as Assistant General Secretary for Program Administration. In 1972 Stockwell became Associate General Secretary for Overseas Ministries of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. He took up his present responsibilities in Geneva in 1984. While visiting at the Overseas Ministries Study Center recently, Stockwell shared some of his thoughts on developments and directions in world mission with Editor Gerald H. Anderson and Research Assistant Robert T. Coote of the International Bulletin.

God, Morality, and Politics

1979 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Eugene Carson Blake
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
National Council ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
World Council ◽  
National Council Of Churches

Eugene Carson Blake has in recent years been actively associated with the Christian citizens' movement, Bread for the World. Before retiring as Secretary of the World Council of Churches in 1972, he served both church and society in many leading capacities, as a distinguished pastor, the chief executive officer of his denomination (the United Presbyterian Church), university and seminary trustee, and president of the National Council of Churches. In 1960, he preached a sermon in the Episcopal Cathedral of San Francisco, where the late James A. Pike was Bishop. This sermon, welcomed by the Bishop, led to the establishment of the Consultation on Church Union. In the forefront of the civil rights movement, Blake was jailed, vilified, and denounced as a communist. In 1978, he was made the subject of a biography, Eugene Carson Blake: Prophet With Portfolio, by R. Douglas Brackenridge (Seabury Press). This present essay is a revised version of an address delivered at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, as “The Willson Lecture.”

Ecumenical Sharing of Personnel: A Report of the Cicarws/Cwme Joint Committee. Tagaytay City, Philippines, January, 1974

1974 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Keyword(s):  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
Complete Report ◽  
World Mission

The World Council of Churches Ecumenical Sharing of Personnel Committee, jointly responsible to the Commission on Inter-Church Aid, Refugee and World Service and the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, held a meeting in Tagaytay City, Philippines, January 21-25, 1974. The report of that meeting with appendixes was quite lengthy. In this issue of the Occasional Bulletin we present, with permission, the essential points of that report, with some editorial abbreviation and without the appendixes. If you should wish a copy of the complete report we will be happy to provide it upon request.

Mission Today and Tomorrow: A Conversation with Emilio Castro

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-111 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
World Council ◽  
One Year ◽  
World Mission

Emilio Castro is Director of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches. Born in Uruguay fifty-three years ago of a Chilean father and a Spanish mother, Castro graduated from Union Theological Seminary in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied for one year under Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. He began his pastoral ministry in Bolivia with the Methodist Church in the 1950s, arriving soon after a revolution that had totally shaken the nation. This was a period of great upheaval and growth in the life of the Methodist Church, which until 1952 numbered only five hundred members after fifty years of work in Bolivia, but suddenly—due to various factors—grew to more than four thousand members. In this context the young pastor witnessed the power of the gospel of the kingdom to provide the basis for living in society with meaning, justice, and responsibility. In 1957 Castro took up a pastorate in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he developed a popular—and controversial—TV program dealing with these themes of the gospel Before coming to Geneva and the World Council of Churches in 1973, Castro worked for seven years in the continentwide ministry of UNILAM, an ecumenical agency concerned with the development of Protestant unity in Latin America. Today Emilio Castro is one of the most influential—and still controversial—leaders in the world mission of the church. While teaching a seminar at the Overseas Ministries Study Center, Ventnor, New Jersey, in January 1981, he shared some of his thoughts on recent developments and directions in world mission with Editor Gerald H. Anderson, Associate Editor Norman A. Horner, and Research Assistant Robert T Coote of the International Bulletin.

The Missionary Structure of the Congregation

1962 ◽  
Vol 13 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Keyword(s):  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Introductory Material ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Subject ◽  
World Mission

Because of the importance and timeliness of the subject, and because of the competence of the introductory material itself, we reproduce here for wider circulation a paper prepared by the Working Committee of the Department on Studies in Evangelism of the World Council of Churches. Dr. Hans Margull is Secretary of the Department of Evangelism, Division of World Mission and Evangelism. This paper is reproduced, with permission, from CONCEPT, Issue II (July 1962), published by the World Council of Churches, 17 route de Malagnou, Geneva, Switzerland. – Editor.

Salvador 1996 “Called to One Hope: The Gospel in Diverse Cultures”

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman E. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Central Theme ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Local Congregations ◽  
World Mission ◽  
Diverse Cultures

This article reports on the World Council of Churches 'Commission on World Mission and Evangelism conference held 24 November–3 December 1996 in Salvador, Brazil. A brief history is outlined of developments leading up to this conference focusing on issues of gospel and culture. The conference format was divided into four sections: I authentic witness within each culture; II gospel and identity in community; III local congregations in pluralist societies; IV one gospel, diverse expressions. The central theme emerging from the conference was unity in diversity. The article concludes by noting some strengths, shortcomings, and polarities of opinions found at the Salvador conference.

Spiritual Significance

Margaret Mead ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 167-188
Author(s):  
Elesha J. Coffman
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
National Council ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
National Council Of Churches

When challenged by a magazine editor in 1971 to cite any spiritually significant work she had done, Mead gave a fulsome response. “The list of my writings with spiritual significance is too long to burden your journal,” she wrote, offering just three sample citations: the essay “Cultural Man,” which she wrote for the World Council of Churches collection Man in Community; her introduction to the National Council of Churches volume Christians in a Technological Era; and “Christian Faith and Technical Assistance,” published in Christianity and Crisis in 1955. She continued, “I am at present, as I have been for many years actively engaged in various enterprises which seek to combine religion and science and religion and psychiatry, at various levels from the Committee on the Future of Earl Hall at Columbia University, to the activities of the Episcopal Church, the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.” She was, by the early 1970s, an established authority on religion. Why did so many people who knew her name not know this aspect of her life?

scholarly journals My Pilgrimage in Mission

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-91
Author(s):  
Stephen Bevans
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Theology ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
World Mission ◽  
Catholic Theological

This article traces Steve Bevans’s journey as a “global theologian,” from his first encounters with “contextual theology” through his development as a theologian and missiologist at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, and his membership in the World Council of Churches’ Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.

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