Sentences with phrase «of ecumenical»

About Blog The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, headquartered in the City of New York, is an Eparchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

As we shall see, while there is often a lack of homogeneity, and some individuals or groups have no name or special identity, they (by their own admission or by descriptions given by others) often fall into the following descriptions: Detaxers; Freemen or Freemen - on - the - Land; Sovereign Men or Sovereign Citizens; Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International (CERI); Moorish Law; and other labels...

Those of us who do not sit in court or otherwise have to deal with self - represented litigants might be surprised at the strangeness of some of the creatures the court's taxonomy identifies: Detaxers, Freemen - on - the - Land, Sovereign Men or Sovereign Citizens, The Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International, Moorish Law, and others.

As we shall see, while there is often a lack of homogeneity, and some individuals or groups have no name or special identity, they (by their own admission or by descriptions given by others) often fall into the following descriptions: Detaxers; Freemen or Freemen - on - the - Land; Sovereign Men or Sovereign Citizens; Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International (CERI); Moorish Law; and other labels — there is no closed list.

Bartana is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the Artes Mundi 4, Wales (2010), the Häagendaismo, Madrid (2010), the Principal Prize by the International Jury and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen short film festival, Germany (2010), and the Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize (2006).

From the perennial bestseller Autobiography of a Yogi to the more recent God Talks With Arjuna, the writings of this ecumenical World Teacher and devotee of Divine Mother have illumined my path and brought me the most profound and lasting sense of personal transformation.

He competed for the award in 2007 with «Secret Sunshine» and in 2010 with «Poetry,» which won Best Screenplay and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

Scherfig wrote and directed Denmark's fifth Dogme film, Italian for Beginners, which won the Silver Bear, the FIPRESCI Prize, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival.

Directed and co-written by Paolo Sorrentino, who shot in Ireland, his native Italy, and the United States with a predominantly American cast headed by Sean Penn, This premiered and competed at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

The history: In his four previous Competition appearances, Haneke has been garlanded with the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for «Code Unknown» (2000), the silver - medal Grand Prix for «The Piano Teacher» (2001), and the Best Director prize for «Cache» (2005), but the Palme d'Or has remained just beyond his reach.

The film has won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for the festival's Palm d'Or Cannes and now it's making its DVD and Blu - ray debut March 12.

So far as Catholics are concerned, the era of ecumenical openness began on that day.

After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council.

In recognition of his ecumenical work with the Eastern Orthodox Church based on his common love and study of the Alexandrian Fathers Saints Athanasius and Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria, Nicholas VI, took the highly unusual step of bestowing upon Torrance, an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, the title of honorary protopresbyter, while Torrance was in Addis Ababa during his trip to Ethiopia as a guest of the Orthodox Church in 1973.

During the next decade (1934 - 44) in Istanbul, his capacity for love was tested not only among the Greek - speaking Orthodox of the Ecumenical Patriarchate but among Turkish Muslims.

But the purpose of ecumenical dialogue is to determine which differences are truly church - dividing, whether or not they are irreconcilable, and whether or not those concerned are willing to do what is necessary to resolve church - dividing irreconcilable positions.

I've asked our writers — Timothy George, Thomas Guarino, and Carl Trueman — to offer a fresh retrospect over the intervening years, to take stock of the ecumenical situation as it involves both Evangelical and Catholic communities, and to reflect on its development up to the present day.

It is, therefore, quite wrong to argue that Hellenism created the idea of ecumenical history.13 The Greek language and Hellenistic culture provided the term and a specialized content, but ecumenicity already inhered, if in quietness and sublety, in some ancient Israel's earliest stories.

The judgment is surely wrong that «it was Hellenism that created the idea of ecumenical history.

Special courses have been introduced in some schools to deal with the nature of the Church, especially in the perspective of the ecumenical movement.

A third paradox: denominations themselves generated much of the ecumenical ethos that led many to predict that the denominational form would wither as the ecumenical spirit prospered.

There is a need for a new ecumenism among black Christians as a task more pressing than that of an ecumenical rapprochement between black and white churches.

The challenge of the ecumenical movement, then, must be to enter into a persistent, loving, patient, and honest engagement with all those who preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and administer the sacraments, seeking visible unity.

Some Anglo - Catholics have left the Anglican communion to join new groups professing to be orthodox Anglicanism, many others are entering into full communion with Rome, and Rome has declared that disappointments and setbacks require a redoubling of ecumenical effort.

Indeed, one of the most under - reported aspects of the Ukrainian revolution of 2013 - 14 was its intensely religious character, which reflected an intensity of ecumenical and inter-religious cooperation that was unheard of, previously, in Ukraine's history.

The conference has closed, leaving in the mind of every member a more vivid sense of the ecumenical character of the church even now, in spite of its divisions.

Some argue that we have never really been able to identify the proper role of the ecumenical movement and of its various participants in relation to the churches.

At the heart of the ecumenical movement, as Reformed people see it, is...

In a recent issue of Ecumenical Trends, Tavard examines the Vatican's new «Directory for Ecumenism,» comparing it with the 1967 version.

Nevin is also of ecumenical interest at a time when evangelical Protestants are asking if the Reformation is over.

The methods of work of the ecumenical movement will surely continue to change, but the Holy Spirit's call to the churches for unity and renewal remains ever present to us.

The ambiguity of the ecumenical journey is grounded in the ambiguity of the cross.

Why then is there so much uneasiness today about the future of the ecumenical movement?

In conclusion, we turn once more to the nature of the ecumenical movement.

Is all this to say, then, that there is no hope of an ecumenical movement's maturing between black and white churches?

Third, I shall refer to current discussions about the future of the ecumenical movement and indicate some Reformed initiatives and responses to current dreams for the future.

That did not mean that I questioned the importance of the ecumenical movement and of the desire for unity.

The Turks permitted the office of Ecumenical Patriarch to continue, but the incumbents had, in effect, to buy their posts from the Turkish rulers.

Lindbeck's «rule - theory,» too, helped me to think about the very nature of the ecumenical councils, like the one Lindbeck attended, as akin to «following a rule,» and unfolding the treasure of the riches that the Church has received from Christ and his apostles.

This to me is the most compelling reason for my high appreciation of the ecumenical movement.

Theology is dogmatic for Barth in that it embraces the classical dogmatic definitions of the ecumenical councils, and especially Chalcedon, as to the meaning and significance of Jesus Christ: in Jesus Christ we confront both what it means to be divine and what it means to be human.

Such fellowship has been one of the major contributions of the ecumenical movement.

When judgment falls, it will be only a matter of academic debate whether it was the disunity of professing Christians, as ecumenists think, that frustrated the emergence of «the great world church,» or whether it was the doctrinal compromises of ecumenical pluralists or the shortsighted squabbling of evangelical independents that spurred the breakdown of Western technological civilization.

The theological themes of Christianity have been further defined and elucidated in the creeds and practices of the ecumenical church of the first six centuries.

Perhaps more than any other single voice, Hoekendijk redefined the mission of the ecumenical churches.

This also explains, to a large extent, the rapid growth of the ecumenical movement since the 1930s.

«Concern for all the poor and those unjustly treated, without exception - independent of race or creed - is not a fashion of the ecumenical movement, but a fundamental tradition of the one church, an obligation that its genuine representatives always saw as of first importance».78

The number and pace of unions has, however, been much slower than the pioneers of the ecumenical movement would have hoped for.

(ENTIRE BOOK) An historical study of the ecumenical discussions on mission as expressed in the conferences and assemblies of the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches.

E., The Ecumenical Advance: A History of the Ecumenical Movement 1948 - 1968, Geneva: WCC, 1970.