Education
Vischer studied theology in Basel, Göttingen, and Strasbourg, and spent one semester at Oxford University.
Vischer studied theology in Basel, Göttingen, and Strasbourg, and spent one semester at Oxford University.
He was ordained in 1950, received a doctorate of theology in 1952, and in 1953 he was appointed as Reformed minister in Herblingen, a small Swiss industrial town near Schaffhausen. From 1962 to 1965 he was a WCC observer at the Second Vatican Council. Vischer wrote numerous books, several of which have been published in English.
He held a professorship in ecumenical theology at Berne and was a member of the European Christian Environmental Network.