ecumenical movement
Americannoun
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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
It has rejected most of the ecumenical movement, and is not a member of either the World or the National Council of Churches, or even of the Lutheran World Federation.
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."
From Time Magazine Archive
Anglicans and Catholics negotiate the role of the papacy After the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church dropped its aloof attitude toward the ecumenical movement and began discussions with numerous other Christian churches.
From Time Magazine Archive
The current effort to settle justification began in the '60s, when Catholicism joined the ecumenical movement.
From Time Magazine Archive
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