Ecumenical Movement
Ecumenism (), also spelled as oecumenism or œcumenism, is the concept and principle in which Christians belonging to different Christian denominations work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity. The adjective ecumenical is thus applied to any interdenominational initiative that encourages greater cooperation between Christians and their churches. The fact that all Christians belonging to mainstream Christian denominations profess faith in Jesus and receive baptism according to the Trinitarian formula is seen as being a basis for ecumenism and its goal of Christian unity. Ecumenists cite John 17:20–23 as the Biblical grounds of striving for …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 16 March 2022 English
Born in Winnipeg in 1927, Lois Wilson was the first female moderator of the United Church of Canada, the first female president of the Canadian Council of Churches, and the …
John R. Mott, one of the architects of the ecumenical movement; Suzanne de Dietrich, a French Protestant … deeply rooted in the United Church and the ecumenical movement, reach beyond the bounds of the church and … and transformative stream of the modern ecumenical movement. Ecumenism is at the very beating heart of … Transformative Ecumenism the Modern eCUMeniCaL MoveMent The modern ecumenical movement was born as a movement rooted … seed- beds and precursors to the modern ecumenical movement. Significantly, they were not expressions …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 March 2022 English
A collection of essays that reflect on the social, economic, and ecological challenges confronting Canada and the world - and suggest a path to follow. Born in Winnipeg in 1927, …
John R. Mott, one of the architects of the ecumenical movement; Suzanne de Dietrich, a French Protestant … deeply rooted in the United Church and the ecumenical movement, reach beyond the bounds of the church and … and transformative stream of the modern ecumenical movement. Ecumenism is at the very beating heart of … Transformative Ecumenism the Modern eCUMeniCaL MoveMent The modern ecumenical movement was born as a movement rooted … seed- beds and precursors to the modern ecumenical movement. Significantly, they were not expressions …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 January 2022 English
In the wake of the devastating First World War, leaders of the victorious powers reconfigured the European continent, resulting in new understandings of nation, state, and citizenship. Religious identity, symbols, …
spicer and rebecca carter-chand Protestant ecumenical movement charts how some mainline Protestants loudly …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 2019 English
What is the secret that allows L'Arche to exist? I'll tell you: pleasure! explains Jean Vanier, founder of the international federation of L'Arche communities where people with and without intellectual …
symmetrical. In the 1970s con- text of the ecumenical movement and new developments in social services …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 March 2017 English
three groups. Those from mainline Protestant denominations comfortable within the emerging ecumenical movement tended to see Nazism as an aberration in German history and understood their chief aim as the …
internationalist vision of the emerging ecumenical movement. These Protestants, such as Keller himself … churches and mission agencies committed to the ecumenical movement saw their task in Germany as fin shed by …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 January 2017 English
Born to a Jewish mother and Protestant father in 1923 Berlin, Gregory Baum has devoted his career to a humanistic approach to Catholicism. In The Oil Has Not Run Dry, …
Church. In 1928, Pius XI had condemned the ecumenical movement started by Protestant and Anglican Christians … ecumenical dialogue and acknowledges the ecumenical movement as the work of the Holy Spirit.6 In this … discovered, was a topic closely related to the ecumenical movement. Since anti- Jewish prejudice was mediated … Transcending Pius XI’s condemnation of the ecumenical movement, the decree on ecu- menism now blessed this …
CAN-Rac: Climate Action Network Canada · 17 June 2016 English
Internally, the federal Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change has valued the social cost of carbon (SCC—a monetary measure of the damage expected worldwide from the emission of each …
As representatives of a broad, national, ecumenical movement of faithful citizens called by God to act …
CPJ: Citizens for Public Justice · 2 June 2016 English
1 Public Justice: What does it mean for citizens, governments, and CPJ? 2007 ( ‐for- ‐Citizens- ‐ 3 Summary of Recommendations CPJ Recommendation #1: Reduce GHG Emissions 1A: Set a …
representatives of a broad, national, ecumenical movement of faithful citizens called by God …
BALTA: BC Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance · 19 June 2010 English
The Vatican documents of Catholic Social Teaching and the statements of the World Council of Churches are two distinct international examples of this type of teaching. [...] One of the …
PSEPC: Public Safety Canada · 18 January 2007 French
Si la perception des Autochtones et celle des autres Canadiens relativement à la justice et à la guérison étaient si fondamentalement différentes, on pourrait s’attendre à ce que le mouvement …
