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ecumenical
1. to achieve unity; he presided over the first ecumenical
2. At least one of the two had an ecumenical education
3. “Theodosius (I) was the first to prohibit the practice of the Pagan religion altogether, and he brought the Arian controversy to its final conclusion at the Second Ecumenical Council (Constantinople 381)…His grandson Theodosius II…brought together the Third Ecumenical Council (Ephesus 431), which anathematized Nestorius for separating the divine in Christ from the human…In 450 Pulcheria, sister of Theodosius…married Marcian…who made it his business to summon the Fourth Ecumenical Council (Chalcedon 451) and secure the condemnation of both Nestorius and the Monophysites, the latter of whom taught that there was only one nature in Christ—the divine
4. Lago for not being aware that Bush has indeed surrounded himself, at various times, with spiritual counselors from several religions at the White House and at ecumenical
5. The Seventh Ecumenical Council condemns them, and al who do not honor the
6. ecumenical push for togetherness (at all cost) that we’ve seen within visible institutional
7. notable that ecumenical efforts, the emerging church and other forces appear to be bringing the
8. An ecumenical collection of spiritual books lined the shelves within the room, some of them lying sideways on top of the upright ones in order to squeeze in a few extra volumes here and there
9. Life in the area was ecumenical indeed, with each person staying rooted deeply in his or her own tradition
10. She was a good friend of the community and her presence was an example of the ecumenical bond the monastery had with people of all faiths
11. It was time for the ecumenical Martin Luther King Day celebration
12. It had nothing to do with the theme of the day, just business and perhaps a lack of fire about the ecumenical movement
13. Moreover, in 325 the first Nicene ecumenical council, under the direction of the emperor Constantine, selected and canonized the four Gospels included in the New Testament out of numerous versions, with the purpose of strengthening the Church and personal authority
14. It was an ecumenical affair and the main Christian denominations were represented
15. She shook his hand and prepared for a silly conversation in which she would express her commitment to the ecumenical spirit
16. They could not agree on an apical truism that knowledge of God is both manifold and ecumenical
17. Until finally: there was so much religious fanaticism, so much bloodshed, so much killing, so much hate: that the Churches themselves came together… trying to establish a vague sort of Ecumenical Peace
18. ” In light of this, what do they believe about unity? We have all this ecumenical confusion here in our land
19. ” I imagined that we could carry him in to “Faith of Our Fathers”—not the sentimental air of the beloved Bing Crosby recording, but the militant martyr’s march that the ecumenical reformers had banished for frightening off converts
20. Ivan Romanovich Bazhenov, who lived at this time in Vladivostok, sent Tolstoi his manuscript essay on the necessity of calling an ecumenical council and asked his opinion on this question
21. A quest for the origins of the ecumenical thought led researchers to find some early voices in the previous centuries, even as early as in the 15 th — 16 th c
22. However, there are Oriental sources which witness to a much earlier formation of the ecumenical paradigm of the ecclesiological thought, typologically corresponding to that developed in the 20 th c
23. In the Golden Age of Medieval Muslim culture under the Abbasid caliphate, an ecumenical position is witnessed to by some Middle Eastern Christian authors
24. The present article uses the Medieval Arabic sources to demonstrate that the history of the ecumenical thought should be corrected by supplying a chapter on the Medieval Eastern period of the history
25. (eds) (1954) A History of the Ecumenical Movement, 1517-1948