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ecumenical
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ecumenical, oecumenical, ecumenic, oecumenic
1. of or relating to the Christian Church throughout the world, esp with regard to its unity
2. 
a. tending to promote unity among Churches
b. of or relating to the international movement initiated among non-Catholic Churches in 1910 aimed at Christian unity: embodied, since 1937, in the World Council of Churches
http://ecumenism.net/


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Gerhart Niemeyer, for example, who deeply admired and was greatly influenced by Voegelin's work, nonetheless expressed disappointment at Voegelin's inadequate treatment of the historical person of Christ in The Ecumenic Age.
Eric Voegelin, The Ecumenic Age (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974).
If he acknowledged a debt to Voegelin, he never surrendered his independent critical judgment in payment: we need not recall Niemeyer's pointed critique of volume four of Voegelin's Order and History, The Ecumenic Age, to demonstrate that independence.
 
 
 
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