We publish here twelve texts by Lukas, written between 1985 and 2000, which reflect his long-standing commitment, not just to the Alliance or the Reformed family, but to the Reformed tradition as an essential contributor to the ecumenical movement.

Vischer, Lukas. Born November 23 1926, Basel, Switzerland.

Ans J van der Bent, Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement (Geneva: WCC, 1991) p.1058a.

From 1961 onwards Vischer was a staff member of the secretariat of the WCC's Commission on Faith and Order, and its director, 1965-79. He was a WCC observer at the Second Vatican Council, 1962-65, and was moderator of the theological department of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1982-89. He studied history and theology at the Universities of Basel, Strasbourg, Göttingen and Oxford and received a D.theol. from the University of Basel in 1952. Ordained to the ministry in 1950, Vischer became pastor of the Reformed church in Herblingen, an industrial town near Schaffhausen. He wrote The Common Catechism (with J Feiner; London, Search, 1975), Ye Are Baptized (WCC, 1961), A Documentary History of the Faith and Order Movement, 1927-63 (St Louis, MO, Bethany, 1963) and Überlegungen nach dem Vatikanischen Konzil (Zurich, EVZ-Verlag, 1966).