noun
Etymology
Origin of intercommunion
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As for the Protestants, Methodist Theologian J. Robert Nelson of Boston University thinks intercommunion should be achievable within a decade, at least with Anglicans and Lutherans, if the new Pope is willing.
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Today, two important developments in 20th century theology have made it possible for Catholics and Protestants to reconsider the whole argument and think of intercommunion.
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Last year he visited Moscow and Istanbul for theological discussions with Orthodox prelates on the prickly question of intercommunion.
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Said the Living Church: "We ask for . . . sympathetic understanding in our disagreement with those who would make intercommunion a means to Christian unity rather than its goal."
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Endeavours to establish intercommunion with the Churches of Eastern Christendom may be made with more hope of success.
From The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 by Cranage, D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset)
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