Glen Garfield Williams

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Glen Garfield Williams (born September 14, 1923 in Newport (Gwent) , Great Britain , † March 28, 1994 in Geneva ) was a British Baptist theologian and ecumenist .

Live and act

Williams was the son of a local businessman and lay minister and was baptized in Duckpool Baptist Church when he was 14 . From 1947 to 1953 he studied at the " South Wales Baptist College " of Cardiff with a degree as a Bachelor of Arts and then studied at the " University of Wales ", where he received a Bachelor of Religion . He was then at the University of Tübingen with a church history thesis on the Italian reformer Bernardino Ochino as doctor of theology doctorate .

His first and only preaching position he held from 1955 to 1959 at the " Dagnall Street Baptist Church " in St. Albans . Then he went to work as a vacation pastor at the " Hengoed Tabernacle ", where he later often retired after his many business trips. From 1959 to 1968 he headed the Europe department of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. As such, he cultivated ecumenical contacts between the member churches and liked to take visits as an opportunity to promote ecumenical cooperation, such as at the inauguration of a Protestant community center in Luxembourg in 1965. From 1968 to 1986 he was general secretary of the Conference of European Churches (CEC). Williams was one of the founders of the Martin Niemöller Foundation in 1977 .

He was a member of the Christian Peace Conference , took part in its third meeting in 1960 and was involved in the preparation of the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly in Prague in 1961 . Among other things, he commented on the Northern Ireland conflict in 1971 .

With an international congress from July 15 to 21, 2009 in Lyon, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the CEC also commemorated the merits of its long-term Secretary General.

Williams had been married to Velia Baglio since 1945.

Publications

  • Give everlasting freedom. A commemorative publication for Regional Bishop D. Gerhard Heintze . In: Works on the history of the Braunschweig ev.-luth. Regional Church in the 19th and 20th Centuries, No. 5. A contribution by Williams, Blomberg 1987
  • The churches' mission in Europe today, Geneva: Conference of European Churches, [1986]
  • Europe, Challenge for the Churches, Frankfurt (am Main): Lembeck, 1973
  • The Theology of Bernardino Ochino, Diss. Tübingen 1955

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ http://www.univie.ac.at/etf-alt/rp/nuetzlich/a+g.txt
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personal data
SURNAME Williams, Glen Garfield
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Baptist clergyman and ecumenist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport (Gwent) , UK
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1994
Place of death Geneva