Jacques Rossel

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Jacques Rossel (born January 22, 1915 in Tramelan near Courtelary , † November 4, 2008 in Pully ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman .

Life

family

Jacques Rossel was the son of the judge Jean Rossel and his wife Martha (née Tissot). He had been married to Anne-Marie, daughter of the doctor Henri Courvoisier, since 1942.

education

He attended schools in Bern and matriculated at the University of Lausanne to study theology . During his studies he attended the World Mission Conference of the International Missionary Council in Tambaram in India in 1938 .

Career

After completing his studies, he served in the Swiss Army from 1939 to 1941 . From 1939 to 1944 he published the Pages Suisses together with François Lachenal and his brother-in-law, Alfred Werner .

From 1941 to 1945 he was a pastor in Bulle and Romont and then from 1946 to 1959 as a missionary in India in southern Kanara near Bangalore and a lecturer at the Mangalore Theological Seminary in Mangalore .

In 1959, he succeeded Alphons Koechlin (1885–1965) as President of the Basel Mission and remained in this position until 1979; the mission numbered just under 400 overseas staff in the early 1960s. In 1964 he founded the Cooperation of Evangelical Missions , which in 1968 included the member churches of the German-Swiss Church Conference and was then renamed as a Cooperation of Evangelical Churches and Missions ; together with the Basel Mission she formed a mission community and was responsible for important publications and public relations.

From 1968 to 1980 he was a representative of the Federation of Swiss Evangelical Churches in the Central Committee and in the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches in Geneva .

In 1972 he was a co-signer of the statutes of the Evangelical Mission in Southwest Germany - Community of Evangelical Churches and Missions , which he had co-founded.

From 1979 until his retirement in 1980 he was pastor in Pully.

Professional activity

Jacques Rossel was committed to the decolonization of the mission, created North-South partnerships and fought for freedom of religion in the Soviet Union .

Honors

Jacques Rossel was founded in 1965 from the University of Bern and in 1979 by the University of Lausanne to Dr. theol. appointed hc .

Fonts (selection)

  • François Lachenal; Alfred Werner; Jacques Rossel: Pages Suisses . Genève: Impr. D'A. Knowledgeable, (1939–1944)
  • South India: of the service of the Church and mission . Metzingen: Franz, 1960.
  • Hinduism . Bern: Francke 1962.
  • Mission in une société dynamique . Geneva: Éditions Labor et fides; Paris: Librairie protestante, 1967.
  • Jacques Rossel; Anna Elisabeth Vischer: Dynamic of Hope: A Contemporary Study on Christ and the World . Basel: Basileia, 1967.
  • Uppsala 68: a call for critical solidarity . Basel: F. Reinhardt, 1968.
  • Le salut aujourd'hui: documents de la Conference missionaire mondiale de Bangkok commentés par quelques participants . Genève: Labor et Fides, 1973.
  • Jacques Rossel; Karl Wilhelm Rennstich: The garbage cans of the rich and poor Lazarus . Stuttgart: Radius, 1982.
  • New Delhi 1961 and the Consequences: The Challenge for Christians and Churches after 1961 . Bad Boll, 1982.
  • Sharing in the ecumenical community . Frankfurt am Main 1983.
  • Daniel von Allmen; Heinrich Balz ; Jacques Rossel: The Christian Mission and the Other Religions . Basel: Basel Mission, 1985.
  • Chrétiens en Chine Populaire . Bâle: Mission de Bâle, 1987.
  • Christians in the People's Republic of China . Basel: Basel Mission, 1988.
  • Aux racines de l'Europe occidentale . Lausanne: Age d'homme, 1998.
  • Jacques Rossel: déchiffrer le changement dans la pratique missionnaire . Lausanne: Le Fait Missionnaire, 1998.
  • A life in ecumenical expanse. Memories . Frankfurt am Main, Lembeck Verlag 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerald H. Anderson: Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions . Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8 ( google.de [accessed on May 9, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Pages suisses, collection dirigée par Alfred Werner, Jacques Rossel, François Lachenal. Cahier n ° ... Impr. D'A. Kundig, Genève 1939 ( bnf.fr [accessed May 9, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Andreas Köller: Mission in a new mission ?: The Basel Mission in India before the challenges of decolonization and ecumenism, 1947–1972 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, ISBN 978-3-647-10152-1 ( google.de [accessed on May 9, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Koechlin, Alphons. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 300,811 Ev. Missionswerk Südwestdeutschland-Archiv (EMS-Archiv) - Canon Law online reference work. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Claudia Bandixen, Evelyne Zinsstag: Mission in Partnership: present and future of mission work from Basel tradition . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-290-17855-0 ( google.de [accessed on May 9, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Jürgen Quack: Book review Jacques Rossel “A life in ecumenical expanse. Memories". In: News from the Basel Mission No. 4 July / August 2010. Retrieved on May 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rossel, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rossel, J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman, theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Tramelan at Courtelary
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2008
Place of death Pully