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Ideas about Europe in the German and French
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The Future of the Church: The
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No Other Name: The Choice between
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Kingship of Christ: An Interpretation of Recent European Theology
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The Genesis and Formation of the World Council of Churches
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601:No Man Is Alien: Essays on the Unity of Mankind
400:The Fatherhood of God in an Age of Emancipation
347:, New York: Willett, Clark & Company, 1937.
326:The Background of the Social Gospel in America
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571:"Visser 't Hooft Lyceum: schoolhistorie"
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369:The Pressure of Our Common Calling
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