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Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br />

Place:<br />

22 August to 4 September, 1948<br />

Dates:<br />

Man's Disorder and God's Design<br />

Theme:<br />

churches: 147<br />

Member<br />

was on the 23rd of August 1948, in Amsterdam, that the World Council of Churches<br />

It<br />

officially founded. 147 churches from different confessions and many countries came<br />

was<br />

the assembly in Amsterdam, four sections were organized to examine aspects of the<br />

At<br />

"Man's Disorder and God's Design":<br />

theme<br />

• the universal church in God's design<br />

• the church's witness to God's design<br />

• the church and the disorder of society<br />

• the church and the international disorder.<br />

First assembly, Amsterdam 1948<br />

together to commit themselves to the ecumenical movement.<br />

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