Sentences with phrase «ecumenical institute»

That demise is what the directors of ecumenical institutes gathered at Bossey under WCC auspices expect, and that is what will occur if, to repeat, the world sets the agenda for the church.

Consider, for example, the report of a participant in a weeklong meeting of directors of ecumenical institutes from around the world held in July 200S at Bossey, the study institute of the WCC.

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At this level contact is needed not only with secular futuristic institutes and universities but also with local churches, with ecumenical and denominational headquarters, with the ghettos, the marketplaces, and wherever new ideas, values, styles of life, and socially effective forces are coming into being.

[The comments were made by Patrick Henry as executive director of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research; they appear in the institute's collection Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.]