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Definition of Ecumenical movement
1. Noun. A movement aimed to promote understanding and cooperation among Christian churches; aimed ultimately at universal Christian unity.
Definition of Ecumenical movement
1. Noun. a movement among Protestant groups since the 1800s aimed at achieving universal Christian unity through international or interdenominational organizations. There are also Ecumenical Councils in the Roman Catholic church; since the Great Schism (1054), the Eastern churches have not been involved. ¹
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Literary usage of Ecumenical movement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wake Up! The Lord is Returning by Alf Droy (2002)
"The ecumenical movement The World Council of Churches (WCC) was formed in Amsterdam
in 1948 with its HQ in Geneva initially 147 Christian denominations ..."
2. A Testimony of Jesus Christ by Anthony Charles Garland (2007)
"The modern ecumenical movement, active first among apostate Protestant churches
in the first half of the twentieth century, then essentially combining (or ..."
3. Religion and Industrial Society: The Protestant Social Congress in by Harry Liebersohn (2007)
"This was the time of an ecumenical movement in the church, when it had become
clear to many orthodox and liberal Protestants alike that they needed to ..."
4. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"... and Methodist Churches, have participated in a successful ecumenical movement
directed by the nongovernmental Panamanian Ecumenical Committee. ..."
5. The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade: A Record of Voyages by William T. Wawn (1893)
"... on the individual and the layman has been emerging during the last forty or
fifty years and we see it now most clearly in the ecumenical movement. ..."
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