ecumenicism


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(Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity

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In addition to its ecumenicism, the SQ will likely become a bona fide standard for Islamic Studies courses in academic institutions throughout the world.
While this is important in setting the record straight, Shields might have also noted that, perhaps like Dogen, today's advocates of ecumenicism or interfaith dialogue do not attempt to reconcile all the religions of the world.
The Socialist Scholars Conference was finally replaced by the Left Forum, which combined political ecumenicism with a very broad hospitality to social activists of many kinds.
Not only is time running out, but it is hard not to agree with him given the gravity of the military's mission to protect us all, that Congress has a duty--nay, an obligation--to treat this issue with far more gravity and ecumenicism than it has thus far.
Thus, for a number of decades thereafter, "ecumenical," "ecumenism," and "ecumenicism" (which, for a while in the 1960's-1970's, vied with "ecumenism," but lost out, and pretty well disappeared) came to be used widely, but not exclusively, to refer to the dialogue within Christianity, searching for some kind of unity.
GENEPOP version 1.2: population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. Journal of Heredity 86:248-249.
In support of such ecumenicism, it may be helpful to offer a definition of reality that is sufficiently open, by virtue of its deliberate incompleteness, to be useful in a variety of discursive contexts without excessively limiting the sorts of realities to which it may be applied.
* IN A RARE SIGN OF ECUMENICISM, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa named a square after an important, pre-Israel Palestinian doctor.
GENEPOP: Population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. J Hered 1995; 86: 248249.
285-312) takes up the issue of Tennyson and Victorian religion, arguing that Hallam's idealized Catholicism inspired by Dante, the Apostles' ecumenicism, and Tennyson's own mysticism (which made the real presence signified by the Catholic Eucharist compelling), induced a life-long receptivity to Catholicism that co-existed with Protestant revulsion from "superstition." If "The Palace of Art" begins with a Madonna derived from Dante and Hallam and culminates in a dark Gothic version implying corruption, "The Holy Grail" focuses on the reality of the cup, which opens up competing Catholic, Protestant, and secular responses as well as tacitly exploring to what degree the national church has foundations in Catholicism.
Genepop (version 3.1): Population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. J.