63) One of the decisive pleas heard throughout the book is to overcome the outdated and unnecessary conflict lines between so-called ecumenical or liberal, evangelical, and Pentecostal camps in world
ecumenism. It is the aim not only of many of the authors, but also--and especially--of the editors to build up confidence between the separate branches in the modern ecumenical movement (arts.
Colleagues have remembered him for his zealous work in broadening the scope of
ecumenism.
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She joked her church was a great example of this shift, holding a very public debate on homosexuality in "the internet age." "Many churches are internally divided and this is an acid test for
ecumenism."
Archbishop Williams praised the Pope's ecumenical commitment: "I have been heartened by the way in which from the very beginning of your ministry as Bishop of Rome, you have stressed the importance of
ecumenism in your own ministry ...
A few years ago I attended a program on
ecumenism where a local priest said the official position of the Catholic Church was that Mormons were not Christians.
The LCA contribution was also unique in that it included a significant number of non-Lutheran missionaries, among them Harold Vogelaar and his wife, Neva, who were being loaned to the LCA Division for World Mission and
Ecumenism (DWME) by the mission board of the Reformed Church of America (RCA), a church with a long and historical relationship with the Muslim world.
Possible solutions under discussion at the Vatican include wider permission to use the Tridentine Mass; however, the Society would first have to accept Vatican II teachings on
ecumenism and religious liberty.
There are two more pieces by Ries: a chapter by chapter epitome of Jean-Claude Margolin's Erasme, Precepteur de l'Europe (1995) and a brief concluding essay, "Des Humanistes Precurseurs de la Modernite" which returns to the theme of Erasmus as a model of
ecumenism. The overview of Margolin's excellent book on the pedagogical influence of Erasmus down to the present day is obviously appropriate to the theme but useful mainly to a general audience.
With years of experience in
ecumenism, most religious leaders, including many of the more conservative ones, viewed fundamentalists negatively.
Modern
ecumenism that seeks the organic unity of Christianity is yet another response to the pluralism of Christian denominational communities.