The New Delhi Report, The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches, 1961, edited by the Council's General Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft and published by SCM Press in 1962, is the World Council of Churches' own official record of its Third Assembly, held in New Delhi, where the International Missionary Council merged into the WCC and the Assembly adopted its basis statement affirming Christ as God and Savior according to the Scriptures. Its strength is that it is the ecumenical body's own formal proceedings, prepared by its own General Secretary, the same official report format the atlas already holds for the WCC's earlier First Assembly. Its limit is that an official assembly report documents what was formally adopted and resolved rather than the floor debate and dissent that shaped those decisions, so a claim about disagreement among member churches over a specific New Delhi resolution needs a historical account of the assembly alongside its own official report.
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The New Delhi Report, edited by the WCC's own General Secretary and published by SCM Press in 1962, is the ecumenical body's own official proceedings of its Third Assembly, treated at the top tier as that primary record. NotesThe World Council of Churches' own official record of its Third Assembly, edited by its General Secretary; the same official-report format the live catalogue already holds for the First Assembly at source 16794.
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AuthorWorld Council of Churches, edited by W. A. Visser 't Hooft
PublisherSCM Press
Publication Year1962
Source TypePrimary document
Claims Backed By This Source (26 claims)
This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 8 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Councils and Synods, 15 claims: 6 well-attested, 8 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 general references.
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