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"ecumenical thinking" "ecumenical activities" "the ecumenical movement"adjectiveconcerned with promoting unity among churches or religions
Definition that contains ecumenic
- constantinople the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
- constantinople the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
- constantinople the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed
- ephesus the third ecumenical council in 431 which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius
- nicaea the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images
- nicaea the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism
- third council of constantinople the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
- ecumenism (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity
- council of chalcedon the fourth ecumenical council in 451 which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ
- first council of nicaea the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism