ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 discusses Visser’t Hooft’s work over the next decade and a half. It looks at his work as the YMCA international secretary for youth work and later for the WSCF and traces his development as a thinker and as an increasingly influential voice in the ecumenical movement, against the background of the theology of Karl Barth, and questions of mission and ecumenicity, and of the rising threat of totalitarian movements and the challenges this posed for youth work. The chapter shows how his developments in this period made him the logical choice, given his vision and character, for the position of general secretary of the planned World Council of Churches.
