Sentences with phrase «ecumenical group»
An ecumenical group is a gathering or organization that includes people from different Christian denominations who come together to work towards unity and cooperation among various branches of Christianity. Full definition
In 1975 Richard and I convened a remarkably ecumenical group of theologians to issue what we called the Hartford Appeal, which was a strongly worded repudiation of the political misappropriation of the gospel.
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Some of the most impressive evangelism and justice ministry is being carried out by ecumenical groups outside of denominational affiliation and power structures.
Currently groups are meeting in a variety of settings and geographic areas: River's Edge, Carnegie West Library, the Galleria, the Catholic Diocese Headquarters, Preterm, Gates Mills Library, Unitarian Universalist churches in Shaker Heights, Akron and Kent, and a Hudson Ecumenical group.
Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise from the encounter of traditional biblical views of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.
The publication of Black Theology and Black Power (1969) put me in contact with an ecumenical group in the National Conference of Black Churchmen (NCBC).
Most denominational and ecumenical groups have only scratched the surface of their opportunity in the area of community mental health.
Apart from details his book may be paradigmatic for other churches and ecumenical groups.
An ecumenical group, Media Action Research Center (MARC), has set up programs in Television Awareness Training (TAT) to help people become more alert to the effects of that medium.
Evangelicals and Catholics Together is an ecumenical group founded in 1994 by Richard John Neuhaus and Chuck Colson.
Given the way the culture wars divide religious folk among themselves on the question of how to respond to modernity, it was only a matter of time before the conservative Christian effort was matched by one from an ecumenical group of Christians and Jews.
St Andrew's & St George's West is one of three churches which form Together, an ecumenical grouping in the New Town of Edinburgh.
She suggested contacting Young Life, an ecumenical group of college students working with high schoolers.