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- noun Plural form of
ecumenist .
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The Archimandrite's attitude is still maintained in some Orthodox quarters; this page on the Elder Nilus says "Archimandrite Photius of the Yuriev Monastery... passed into history as a true confessor who battled with the enemies of the Orthodox Church: the Protestants, Masons and the 'ecumenists' of that time - the Bible Society."
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But our willingness to live trustfully with differences, because we know that God's will is always greater than our grasp of it, is the best testimony ecumenists can make in this political season.
Rev. Chuck Currie: Presidential Candidates Should Reject Violent Rhetoric; Embrace Church Call For Civility Rev. Chuck Currie 2011
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But our willingness to live trustfully with differences, because we know that God's will is always greater than our grasp of it, is the best testimony ecumenists can make in this political season.
Rev. Chuck Currie: Presidential Candidates Should Reject Violent Rhetoric; Embrace Church Call For Civility Rev. Chuck Currie 2011
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In the discourse between Lutheran and Catholic ecumenists over the past half-century, however, a new picture of Luther has emerged.
A Thousand Miles in the Footsteps of Martin Luther Sarah Hinlicky Wilson 2010
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Of course Iakovos has his own agenda as one of the tiny band of Orthodox ecumenists, and misreads the Pope in his own way.
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So let us reflect this afternoon on a theme which is not a usual or obvious one among ecumenists, but which is nevertheless an important one.
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The fact is, however painful for all the false ecumenists to accept, is that no one is saved by through or in another religion.
Lacking the Faith Francis 2006
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Naturally, Clooney finds part of the problem in Dominus Iesus, which then-Cardinal Ratzinger issued in 2000, thus dismaying prog ecumenists about as much as Unitatis Redintegratio and Dignitatis Humanae have long dismayed trad triumphalists.
You can always count on the Jesuits Mike L 2007
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But these current events are not mere show, mere "making nice" to satisfy a rather narrow circle of professional ecumenists unknown to most church members.
Ecumenism: alive and well Mike L 2007
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If Owen does find it, which he has by no means demonstrated, then he is mistaking the fatuity and self-absorption of some professional ecumenists with the heart of the Catholic Church.
Ever ancient, ever new...arguments: Part II Mike L 2007
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