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Ecumenical activity in Great Britain is increasing once again. For some time there has been talk among the Anglicans and the Methodists in that island about the desirability of merging. Now concrete work is being done to realize this goal. Commissions from both churches approved a blueprint for reun
RECENT MOVEMENTS TOWARDS ECUMENICISM The unity of the church has always been a grave problem in the history of theology and of the church in the New Dispensation. In recent years this problem has come to the foreground of religious thought many times. RECENT MOVEMENTS TOWARDS ECUMENICISM The unit
ECUMENISM AND MERGERS The time of Synods and Church Assemblies is once again almost past. While a host of decisions on a variety of subjects were taken, ecumenism dominated the discussions of the broadest assemblies of the nation's churches. A survey of what happened includes the following. ECUMENI
Since the ecumenical ventures of the sixties, progress towards church union has seemingly slowed. The efforts which churches were making to merge into ever larger denominations seemed to be put on the back burner of ecclesiastical concerns. But if the impressions were being left that ecumenism was n
On the basis of these "considerations," the Vatican Council encouraged efforts towards closer contact with the "separated brethren." It did issue a word of warning toward the overly zealous: This sacred council exhorts the faithful to refrain from superficiality or imprudent zeal, for these can hin
Rev. Stewart is pastor of the Covenant Protestant Reformed Church in Northern Ireland. Previous article in this series: January 15, 2009, p. 179. Vatican II's Decree on Ecumenism (1964) is the Roman Catholic Church's blueprint for restoring all professing Christians -- especially the Eastern Orthod
Ecumenism assumes many forms and shapes. The subject does not necessarily involve immediate merger of churches, but "ecumenism" is concerned with anything which would lead to unity. We may be reminded, too, that there can be both a good and bad ecumenism. It is true, as far as our churches are conce
Prof. Herman C. Hanko The Importance of the Subject From an ecclesiastical point of view, our modern age has often been described as the Age of Ecumenicity. No other single event in the church captures the headlines in the ecclesiastical press and the imagination of church members as the movement
At the last session of the Vatican Council of that Church one of the most important discussions centered on the “ecumenical question”. The main difficulty in all of these attempts at unity is that it must always be not on Scripture but on only the broadest, most general, and compromising basis. This
The ecumenical movement has the whole church world head over heels in a dither. All denominations must become tightly knit into one great world church. Over against such annihilation of church distinctions and the accompanying annihilation of confessional and scriptural bases the courageous, faithfu