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
This merger finally unites the three elements with which the ecumenical movement began.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mormons, Baptists, Presbyterians and others are prominent in this ecumenical movement.
From Time Magazine Archive
The organized ecumenical movement seems to be on the back burner and ecumenicity is now taking place where Roman Catholics and Protestants share beliefs in matters like the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection of Christ.
From Time Magazine Archive
Publicly, council leaders are boosting the assembly as "the most widely representative meeting in the history of the ecumenical movement."
From Time Magazine Archive
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