Universal Christian Council for Life and Work Conference (1937 : Oxford, England) (Corporate Name)

Oxford 1937: the Universal Christian Council for Life and Work Conference, 2004: abstract (The Oxford 1937 Life and Work Conference is a highly important event in the history of the ecumencial movement. It met at a time of international political crisis. Within two years the world would be at war. The churches in Europe and North America were confronted by the rise of totalitarian regimes, especially in Germany and Russia. Led by Joseph Oldham the conference delegates analysed this crisis theologically. They understood totalitarian regimes to be a form of Political religion adopted by people whose lives lacked meaning and purpose. The advent of secularism had removed Christian belief and practice from the West and humanity turned to false and pagan religions to fill the void. Oxford 1937 was a call to the churches to reassert themselves against this secular and pagan challenge)

LC database, 08-03-04 (hdg.: World Conference on Church, Community, and State, Oxford, 1937)

Finding aid for Universal Christian Council for Life and Work records, 1924-1939, in the Burke Library Archives, Columbia University Libraries, Union Theological Seminary, viewed online, Oct. 6, 2016: history (The Life and Work Movement was started after World War One by the preparation of the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work held in Stockholm in 1925 It was an Ecumenical attempt for Orthodox and Protestant churches to try and reach consensus about the practical activities of Church and their relationship to states and society. A continuation committee and then the more organized Universal Christian Council for Life and Work carried on the work of the Stockholm conference through several meetings and research activities. This culminated to the Oxford Conference on Church, Community and State in 1937) http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/locations/burke/fa/wab/ldpd_10735352.pdf