Universal Christian Council for Life and Work records, 1924 -- 1939

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Universal Christian Council for Life and Work records, 1924 -- 1939

This series is open for research.

1 linear feet; 1 linear foot; 2 boxes

This series contains preparatory documents, minutes of meetings, committee reports, pamphlets, presentations from conferences, and other material relating to the Universal Christian Council for Life and Work.

This series is arranged in rough chronological order.



Box 1 Folder 1 American section – Preparation of the 1925 Stockholm Conference, 1924


Box 1 Folder 2 Universal Conference for Life and Work, Stockholm, 1925


Box 1 Folder 3 Continuation Committee: Winchester meeting, 1927


Box 1 Folder 4 Continuation Committee: Prague meeting, 1928


Box 1 Folder 5 Continuation Committee: Eisenbach meeting: invitations, preliminary work, reports, 1929


Box 1 Folder 6-7 Continuation Committee: Eisenbach meeting: reports from commissions, 1929


Box 1 Folder 8 Continuation Committee: Eisenbach meeting: minutes, liturgy, 1929


Box 1 Folder 9 American Section, minutes from meetings, 1928 -- 1929


Box 1 Folder 10 Answer of Archbishop Söderblom to the Encyclical letter "De vera religionis unitate fovenda", 1928


Box 1 Folder 11 Chamby-sur-Montreux Meeting: Administrative and Executive committees: minutes, time tables, reports, 1935


Box 1 Folder 12 Chamby-sur-Montreux Meeting: Notes by William Adams Brown, 1935


Box 1 Folder 13 Chamby-sur-Montreux Meeting: "The Christian View of Man", by William Adams Brown, 1935


Box 1 Folder 14 Chamby-sur-Montreux Meeting: Preparation for 1937 World Conference, reports from commissions, 1935


Box 1 Folder 15 Chamby-sur-Montreux Meeting: General, 1936


Box 1 Folder 16 Chamby-sur-Montreux Meeting: Administrative Committee, 1936


Box 1 Folder 17 Chamby-sur-Montreux Meeting: Committee for German Refugees, 1936


Box 1 Folder 18 Chamby-sur-Montreux Meeting: reports from sections and committees, 1936


Box 1 Folder 19 Chamby-sur-Montreux Meeting: Preparation of the 1937 Oxford Conference, 1936


Box 1 Folder 20 Consultative Groups of the Ecumenical Movement, 1933 -- 1937


Box 1 Folder 21 Research Department, Theologian's Commission, Department of Education and Expansion, 1932


Box 1 Folder 22 Research Department and Theologian's Commission – Ecumenical Study Conference, Rengsdorf, 1933-03


Box 1 Folder 23 Research Department and Theologian's Commission – Orthodox Study Conference, Bucarest, 1933-03


Box 1 Folder 24 Research Department -- Ecumenical Study Conference, 1934


Box 1 Folder 25 Research Department – Meetings Reports/Minutes, 1934 -- 1939


Box 1 Folder 26 Research Department – General, 1933



Box 2 Folder 1 Research Department – Pamphlets, 1934 -- 1935


Box 2 Folder 2 "The Attitude of Christian Thought in America toward Current Problems of Christian Ethics", William Adams Brown, circa 1930 -- 1939


Box 2 Folder 3 Second and Third Ecumenical Seminars, Geneva (programs), 1935 -- 1936


Box 2 Folder 4 Correspondence – William Adams Brown, J. H. Oldham, William L. Savage, 1936


Box 2 Folder 5 "Resolution passed by the Presidents of the European-Continental, British and Orthodox Section of the Oecumenical Council of Life and Work (Stockholm World Conference) regarding the Religious Persecution in Russia", circa 1936


Box 2 Folder 6 Report of the Activities of the Universal Christian Council, 1935


Box 2 Folder 7 Stockholm World Conference: Programs, constitutions, pamphlets, 1925


Box 2 Folder 8-9 Stockholm World Conference: reports and pamphlets, 1925


Box 2 Folder 10 Stockholm World Conference: Typed lists of contents, 1925