The most serious weakness of the ecumenical movement today is that it is generally regarded as the responsibility of a few national leaders in each denomination and a few interdenominational executives.

Most pastors and laymen, even though they believe it to be important, assume that the ecumenical movement lies outside the province of their parishes.

As long as this point of view prevails, the ecumenical movement will be lame and halt.

Until they see the ecumenical movement in terms of the difference it makes in their own attitudes, programs, and relationships, it will have an inevitable aspect of unreality.

It has become almost trite to say that the ecumenical movement must be `` carried down to the grass roots ''.

Whenever a congregation really sees itself as a unit in the universal Church, in vital relation with the whole Body of Christ and participating in His mission to the world, a necessary foundation-stone of the ecumenical movement has been laid.

We shall not make a decisive advance in the ecumenical movement until such a church begins to see itself not merely as a haven of comfort and peace but as a base of Christian witness and mission to the world.

As long as the congregation regards the church as `` our '' church, or the minister thinks of it as `` my '' church, just so long the ecumenical movement will make no significant advance.

This reflects one of the core scripture passages in the ecumenical movement, Jesus ' prayer in John 17: 21, " That they all may be one ".

The Oriental and Eastern Churches have also been working toward reconciliation as a consequence of the ecumenical movement.

The post-war period also saw growth of the ecumenical movement and the founding of the World Council of Churches, which was generally regarded with suspicion by the evangelical community.

Pressure for an ecumenical council also grew as the only way to breach the Western Schism, but the conciliar movement made no headway during Boniface's papacy.

It arose out of the ecumenical movement and has as its basis the following statement:

John Milbank and others within this strand have been instrumental in the creation of the ecumenical ( though predominantly Anglican and Roman Catholic ) movement known as Radical Orthodoxy.

Leading the anti ecumenical movement in the 1980s was Fr.

The general understanding of the ecumenical movement is that it came from the Roman Catholic Church's attempts to reconcile with Christians who had become separated over theological issues.

During the 19th century the great Sakya master and terton Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, the famous Kagyu master Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye and the important Nyingma terton Orgyen Chokgyur Lingpa founded the Rime movement, an alleged ecumenical attempt to incorporate all teachings of all schools, to overcome the separation of Buddhist transmission in different traditions.

Chögyam Trungpa was also trained in the Nyingma tradition, the oldest of the four schools, and was an adherent of the ri-mé (" nonsectarian ") ecumenical movement within Tibetan Buddhism, which aspired to bring together and make available all the valuable teachings of the different schools, free of sectarian rivalry.

In April 1966, a New York Times article on New Jersey and the society voiced — in part — a concern for " the increasing tempo of radical right attacks on local government, libraries, school boards, parent-teacher associations, mental health programs, the Republican Party and, most recently, the ecumenical movement.

In 1971, the ecumenical movement reached its height as a joint commission the United and Anglican Churches and the Disciples of Christ approved a Plan of Union, and The Hymn Book, a joint publication of the United and Anglican Churches was published.

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" Examples are given of historians from different branches of the movement interpreting it in relation to the statements of early Restoration Movement leaders, in terms of social and cultural factors, differing approaches to interpreting scripture, differing approaches to the authority of scripture, and " ecumenical progressivism " versus " sectarian primitivism.

" The early stages of the ecumenical movement, which led in 1908 to the Federal Council of Churches, provide a second source of controversy.

George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American Conservative movement, states that Buckley was " arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century ... For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure.

One is that whatever is ecumenical has to do with some over-all organization at `` the top '' and needs only to be understood at the so-called `` lower levels ''.

In the last two of these functions he has an important ecumenical and interfaith role, speaking on behalf of Anglicans in England and worldwide.

The 1989 Hymnal has both the traditional version and the 1988 ecumenical version ( see below ), which includes " he descended to the dead.

The congregationalist theory of independence within a union has been a cornerstone of most ecumenical movements since the 18th century.

Its present canon law requires that an ecumenical council be convoked and presided over, either personally or through a delegate, by the Pope, who is also to decide the agenda ; but the church makes no claim that all past ecumenical councils observed these present rules, declaring only that the Pope's confirmation or at least recognition has always been required, and saying that the version of the Nicene Creed adopted at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) was accepted by the Church of Rome only seventy years later, in 451.

The Lutheran World Federation, in ecumenical dialogues with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has affirmed all of the first seven councils as ecumenical and authoritative.

Part of this attempt was reportedly influenced by ecumenical efforts in Syria and Lebanon, where the Greek-Melkite Church has played an important role in improving ties with the Orthodox.

In some cases, this openness to Unitarianism within traditionally Trinitarian churches has been inspired by a very broad ecumenical motive.

Ultramontanism has particularly overshadowed ecumenical work between the Roman Catholic Church and both Lutherans and Anglicans.

** Pope Paul VI announces that the ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.

For example, the ecumenical status accorded him traditionally within Eastern Orthodoxy, and recognized previously by the Ottoman governments, has on occasion been a source of controversy within the Republic of Turkey.

The Pope alone has the right to convoke, suspend, and dissolve an ecumenical council ; he also presides over it or chooses someone else to do so and determines the agenda ( can.

Laws or teachings issued by an ecumenical council require the confirmation of the Pope, who alone has the right to promulgate them ( can.

The Assyrian Church of the East, which recognizes the Latrocinium or " Second Council of Ephesus " of 449 as an ecumenical council, has some similar views to the Eastern Orthodox regarding sacramental theology in chrismation.

It has also signed some other ecumenical texts, including the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification with the Roman Catholic Church.

It has also been the site for several ecumenical and / or interfaith services.

" Monsignor Dennis Mikulanis, vicar for inter-religious and ecumenical affairs for the Roman Catholic diocese of San Diego, responded to the ADL saying that " the Church has not restored antisemitic language.

Much of his patriarchate has been concerned with tending to the Assyrian diaspora community in the wake of Saddam Hussein's attacks on the Kurds during and after the Iran – Iraq War and with ecumenical efforts to strengthen relations with other churches.

Meanwhile, the Triratna Buddhist Community, which he founded as the FWBO, has been described as " perhaps the most successful attempt to create an ecumenical international Buddhist organization ".