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"ecumenical thinking" "ecumenical activities" "the ecumenical movement"adjectiveconcerned with promoting unity among churches or religions
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"the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"adjectiveof worldwide scope or applicability
Definition that contains ecumenical
- constantinople the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed
- 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
- ephesus the third ecumenical council in 431 which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius
- nicaea the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism
- nicaea the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images
- world council of churches an ecumenical organization of Protestant and eastern churches; intended to promote unity and cooperation in religious and secular matters
- chalcedon the fourth ecumenical council in 451 which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ
- council of ephesus the third ecumenical council in 431 which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius
- second council of constantinople the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic