Paul Abrecht

Christian Century, June 28, 2005

> Paul Abrecht, an American Baptist and social ethicist who helped the World Council of Churches define and respond to church-and-society issues starting in the late 1940s, died May 21 at the age of 87. Abrecht was instrumental in planning two pivotal events--the 1966 World Conference on Church and Society in Geneva and the 1979 World Conference on Faith, Science and the Future at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.