2. Adverb. regarding ecumenism ¹
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Definition of Ecumenically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecumenically
Literary usage of Ecumenically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Third World Council: That Is, the Third Council of the Whole Christian by James Chrystal (1908)
"... ON THE ecumenically APPROVED USE OF THE FATHERS. In different documents
Ecumenical Councils have spoken well of what is in effect the historical witness ..."
2. Authoritative Christianity: The First Ecumenical Council ... which was Held by James Chrystal (1908)
"The prohibition of giving worship to Christ "in two Natures" by the said Anathema
IX is therein ecumenically defined, to be the truth and the faith "as the ..."
3. The Anointing of the Sick in Scripture and Tradition: With Some by Frederick William Puller (1904)
"But no such solemn decision on this point has ever been made and ecumenically
ratified. The question is one of very high importance, and as it happens, ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"... word by word, from these same sacred Scriptures, and defined authoritatively
in the accepted conciliar creeds and ecumenically binding dogmatic decrees, ..."
5. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1895)
"It is not conceivable now that any council, however ecumenically constituted,
should so pronounce on truth that its decrees should have any weight with ..."
6. Essays and Addresses: Religious, Literary and Social by Phillips Brooks (1894)
"It is not conceivable now that any council, however ecumenically constituted,
should so pronounce on truth that its decrees should have any weight with ..."
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