Sentences with phrase «major ecumenical council»
As anyone with the most rudimentary grasp of ecclesiastical history knows the Church often takes time to stabilise after a major Ecumenical Council.
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This is the place where ecumenical bodies such as the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches (perhaps in cooperation with the World Health Organization) have a major opportunity to provide coordination and joint strategy designing.
The Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches at the Chateau de Bossey near Geneva has as one of its major functions the bringing together of groups of people of a common profession — Christian doctors, lawyers, educators, industrialists, political leaders — for a week or ten days of mutual probing of the applications of Christian faith to their vocations.
The major dispute in the Catholic Church in the decades following the Sixth Ecumenical Council was what is known as the Iconoclastic Controversy.