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Part one: the ecumenical background
I. The missionary movement
1. The revival of missions
2. The evangelical alliance
3. Student Christian movement
4. First world missionary conference, 1910
5. The international missionary council
II. The life and work movement
1. The social emphasis
2. Christian socialism
3. The federal council of churches
4. World war I and the churches
5. The world alliance for international friendship
6. Wartime movements
7. Postwar developments
8. The universal Christian conference on life and work, 1925
9. The continuation committee
10. Life and work and the world alliance
11. Life and work finds its mission
12. The conference on church, community and state, 1937
III. The faith and order movement
1. The evangelical alliance; its theological basis
2. The American congress of churches
3. Presbyterians and Congregationalists
4. Disciples of Christ
5. The congregation of God in the spirit
6. Lutheran and reformed churches
7. The episcopal church and unity
8. Movements relating to faith and order in Europe
9. Reasonable orthodoxy
10. Churches of the reformation and Anglicanism
11. The influence of pietism
12. The rise of nationalism
13. The Anglican and Gallican churches
14. The non-jurors and eastern orthodoxy
15. The church of England and dissent
16. The society for promoting Christian knowledge
17. Dissent and Tractarianism
18. Tractarianism and Rome
19. The free churches and unity
20. The ecumenical influence of books
21. The Grindelwald conferences
22. The church of England and the church of Sweden
23. The Anglican and Moravian churches
24. Lord Halifax and the churches of England and Rome
25. The old catholic churches
26. The eastern orthodox churches and the ecumenical movement
27. Faith and order in Holland
28. The movement toward unity in Austria and Hungary
29. World denominational fellowships
30. The modern faith and order movement
31. The first world conference on faith and order, Lausanne
32. The second world conference on faith and order, Edinburgh
Part two: the world council of churches in process of formation
I. The provisional committee
1. The continuation committee of faith and order and the universal Christian council united
2. Provisional committee of the world council of churches
3. The second world war
4. The provisional committee in wartime
5. Postwar actions of the provisional committee
6. The commission of the churches on international affairs
7. First world conference for Christian youth
8. Ecumenical press service
II. Buck Hill Falls, 1947
1. The provisional committee meets
2. Report on the orthodox churches
3. Report of the joint committee of W.C.C. and I.M.C
4. Youth department policy
5. Action on reconstruction
6. Commission of the churches on international affairs
7. What of faith and order in the world council?
8. The constitution
9. Concerning public utterances
III. Toward Amsterdam
1. Arrangements for the first assembly
2. The study department
3. The difficult task
4. The invitation to Amsterdam
5. Personnel, officers, and finances
Part three: the world council of churches constituted
Amsterdam
I. Opening sessions
1. Membership
2. Amsterdam
3. Worship at the assembly
4. Communion
5. Opening service in Nieuwe Kerk
6. First meeting in the Concertgebouw
7. The world council of churches constituted
II. Assembly addresses
1. Karl Barth
2. Emil Brunner
3. Martin Niemöller
4. Bishop Eivind Berggrav
5. Reinhold Niebuhr
6. John Foster Dulles
7. Josef Hromadka
8. Charles H. Dodd
9. John Baillie
10. Philippe Maury
11. Saroe Chakko
12. Ernest Brown and Metropolitan Themistocles Chrysostom
13. Regin Prenter
14. Clarence Tucker Craig
15. Georges Florovsky
16. Bishop Stephen Charles Neill
17. Kathleen Bliss
18. Anna Canada Swaim
19. Mildred McAfee Horton
20. Christian Kobla Dovlo
21. Gordon Alfred Sisco
22. Samuel McCrea Cavert
23. G. Báez-Camargo
24. Samuel Rizzo
25. H.R. Høgsbro and bishop K.F.O. Dibelius
26. G.K.T. Wu, Tsu-Chen Chao and Rajah B. Manikam
27. S.A. Morrison and Johannes Apkarian
28. J.M. Karefa-Smart
29. Ranson, Devanandan, Florovsky, and Horton on priorities
30. John R. Mott
31. Archbishop Geoffrey Francis Fisher
32. Address by the general secretary
III. Sections at study
1. Section I: the universal church in God's design
2. Section II: the church's witness to God's design
3. Section III: the church and the disorder of society
4. Section IV: the church and the international disorder
IV. Other reports
1. Report on life and work of women
2. Report on the laity
3. Christian approach to the Jews
4. Reconstruction and inter-church aid
5. Youth at Amsterdam
6. Program and administration
7. Adoption of the constitution
8. Statement of the nature of the council (adopted)
9. The message from Amsterdam
Part four: the world council, the ecumenical movement, and the churches
1. Influence of the world council on relations of the churches with ecumenical bodies
2. Friends and enemies
3. Theological differences
4. Criticism of the social action program
5. Unity in love
6. Persecutions
7. Opposition to state churches
8. Separatists' objections to the council
9. Aversion to church union
10. The problem of churches with congregational polity
Part five: the first six years of the world council of churches
I. The central committee
1. Organization
2. Regional offices and their staffs
3. Attention to attacks on the world council
4. The central committee at work
5. The staff between assemblies
6. Growth in membership
7. The role of the central committee
II. Pronouncements of the central committee
1. Statements on religious freedom
2. Pronouncement on the hydrogen bomb
3. The church, the churches, and the world council
4. Conflict in Korea
5. Letter to Korean Christians
6. International threats to peace
7. The relation of unity and mission
8. Appeal on behalf of conscientious objectors
9. Social conditions on foreign mission fields
10. Letter to the United Nations
11. Resolution on Korea
12. Letter to the Berlin conference
III. Evaluation of the pronouncements
1. On the nature of the world council
2. On religious liberty
3. On encouragement of Koreans
4. On the Korean conflict and world order
5. On conscientious objectors
6. On world unrest and totalitarianism
7. On hydrogen bombs
8. On missions and social action
9. On the Berlin conference
10. On unity and mission
11. Recapitulation
12. The committees criticized for their much speaking
IV. Special studies by the central committee
1. The church's action in international affairs
2. What the churches expect from the world council
3. "The basis"
4. The joint committee of the W.C.C. and the I.M.C
5. The eastern orthodox churches
6. The Roman catholic church
7. Department of public relations
8. Looking to the second assembly v. Activities of other departments
1. The study department
2. The secretariat for evangelism
3. The ecumenical institute
4. Faith and order in the world council
5. Faith and order
the Lund conference
6. Youth department
7. The laity
8. Women and the world council of churches
9. Inter-church aid and service to refugees
10. Publications
11. Ecumenical library
12. The budget
13. Joint secretariat for east Asia
14. The world council in the United States
15. The commission of the churches on international affairs
Part six: the second assembly of the world council of churches
I. "Christ
the hope of the world"
1. The main theme conceived and developed
2. The theme presented and debated
3. The theme reviewed
4. The message of the assembly to the churches
1. The assembly sermon
2. Report of the central committee
3. General secretary's report
4. The problem of intercommunion
III. The study sections
1. Our oneness in Christ and our disunity as churches
2. The mission of the church to those outside her life
3. The responsible society in a world perspective
4. Christians in the struggle for world community
5. The church amid racial and ethnic tensions
6. The Christian in his vocation
IV. New structures and past performances
1. Committee on structure and functioning
2. Committee on general policy
3. Committee on the division of studies
4. Committee on the division of ecumenical action
5. Committee on the division of inter-church aid
6. Committee on the department of information
7. Committee on finance
8. Committee on the commission of the churches on international affairs
9. Credentials committee
10. Committee on nominations
11. Joint committee on the international missionary council and the world council of churches
V. The council's membership Part seven: after Evanston
I. The central committee
1. Program and activities
2. Personnel changes
3. Central themes
II. Major areas of tension
1. The churches and rapid social change
2. The world council and communism
3. The world council and the Roman Catholic church
III. The post-Evanston study program
1. The Bible in the churches
2. The lordship of Christ
3. Christianity and other faiths
4. Missionary obedience and the word of God
5. The life and growth of the younger churches
6. Theological education
7. Evangelism
8. The relation of witnessing and serving
9. Concerning proselytism
IV. Progress and problems
1. The marvel of the world council
2. Inter-church aid and service to refugees
3. Revision of the basis of the world council
4. The future of faith and order
5. On merger with the international missionary council
6. Intergroup relations: racial and ethnic tensions
7. Toward a responsible international society
8. The churches and the problem of overpopulation
V. Departments and programs
1. Work for the laity
cooperation of men and women
2. The youth department
3. The ecumenical institute
4. The department of information
5. Concerning world council finances
6. New headquarters in Geneva
7. Regional conferences
8. New members of the world council, 1954-61
9. Looking toward the third assembly
10. Post-Evanston perspective: a narrow road
part eight: about New Dehli
I. Christ, comity, and communion
1. The main theme
2. The basis revealed
3. The world council and church unity
4. The nature of the world council
5. Communion at New Dehli
6. Youth and intercommunion
II. Notable events
1. The merger of the international missionary council with the world council of churches
2. Admission of the Russian orthodox church
3. Observers from Rome
4. East and west: confrontation and community
III. The churches and the world
1. Christian witness
2. The problem of government, political and ecclesiastical
3. Resolution on Angola
4. Communists at New Dehli?
5. The problem of growing populations
6. Resolution on anti-Semitism
7. The secretariat on race and ethnic relations
8. Declaration on religious liberty
9. The Christian conception of man in world crisis
10. The finality of Christ in the age of universal history
IV. The council and the churches
1. Finance and structure
2. The laity in the world council
3. Report of the committee on faith and disorder
4. The central committee, the assembly, and the world council
5. Membership of the central and executive committees after New Dehli
6. New churches added to the world council
7. The message of the assembly to the churches
Part nine: Retrospect and prospect