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  • adjective Between churches.

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  • adjective occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ church

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Examples

  • There's a Scylla and a Charybdis in interchurch discussions, as in so many other kinds of discussions.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Mike L 2007

  • There's a Scylla and a Charybdis in interchurch discussions, as in so many other kinds of discussions.

    Progressing to ecclesiological debate Mike L 2007

  • It has often been noted that the sharpest religious divide in our era is not interchurch but intrachurch: that between the "mere Christians" striving to adhere to the ancient faith and morality, and the progressives who want to reinvent Christianity in a postmodern idiom.

    Is the threat real, and what is at stake? Mike L 2005

  • It has often been noted that the sharpest religious divide in our era is not interchurch but intrachurch: that between the "mere Christians" striving to adhere to the ancient faith and morality, and the progressives who want to reinvent Christianity in a postmodern idiom.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Mike L 2005

  • Follow-up plans made as result of interchurch survey, including:

    Church Cooperation in Community Life

  • Survey -- Follow up what interchurch county office has done.

    Church Cooperation in Community Life

  • Act as secretary of Committee on Adjustments -- provide office for interchurch activities.

    Church Cooperation in Community Life

  • Benedict made a historic gesture for interchurch unity by presiding over a prayer service with a Protestant bishop in the Erfurt monastery where the 16th-century reformer Martin Luther lived as a monk before he split with Rome.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • United States, denominations now are only one of multiple options along with independent churches, megachurches, emergent churches and a variety of non-denominational, interchurch coalitions.

    ABP News 2010

  • THE WRITING of this study was occasioned by a specific event relevant to today's interchurch or ecumenical relations and their evident conflict with the authentic ecclesiastical tradition of the Prophets, the Apostles and our Fathers and Mothers throughout the ages.

    orrologion 2009

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