ecumenism
noun
ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.
ecumenist
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a word derived from
ecumenism.
Example Sentences
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When Lyndon Johnson attended Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral recently, Washington's Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle referred to the President in his sermon as "the chief ecumenist in this ecumenical age."
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But the scarred sectarian history of Britain is enough to give pause to the most optimistic ecumenist.
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He was Judaism's first ecumenist, who revered Jesus as much as a Jew might, and gently, unpolemically defined the gap that only God could bridge between the two types of Biblical faith.
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St. John's is "a holy place for the whole city," explains the Houston-born, Harvard-educated ecumenist.
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His reasoning is that Catholics "must not just respect but esteem" the religious values of others; he has blossomed as the most convinced and convincing ecumenist in the Catholic Church.
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