ecumenical movement
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“The ecumenical movement has broadened my viewpoint and I recognize now that God has his people in all churches,” he said in the early 1950s.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
An E.K.D. spokesman warned in October that the violence issue was "liable to blow the whole ecumenical movement apart."
From Time Magazine Archive
Said Kevin Ranaghan, a Roman Catholic who was chairman of the conference: "I believe this is the largest grass-roots ecumenical movement in 800 years."
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A message of strong support from Demetrios I, the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, reaffirmed Orthodoxy's support for the ecumenical movement but urged it not to be overly preoccupied with "sociopolitical aims."
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The current effort to settle justification began in the '60s, when Catholicism joined the ecumenical movement.
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