In the 1520s the Carmelite provincial Poul Helgesen (Paulus Helie) was at the forefront of a humanistic Catholic MODERNISM, which was inspired by Erasmus of Rotterdam. Some of his students converted to the evangelical movement, which grew in all large...

ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT. The long and varied history of Christian ecumenism is reflected in the many definitions attached to the word itself. The Greek oikoumenē comes from the noun oikos ("house, dwelling") and the verb oikeō...

Ecumenism (also oecumenism, œcumenism) refers to initiatives aimed at greater religious unity or cooperation. Most commonly, ecumenism is used in its narrow meaning, referring to greater co-operation among different Christian groups or denominations....

The following communications were received in the early weeks of 2005. The first is a blessing submitted to the WCC ninth assembly planning committee for services of daily prayer; it comes from Indonesia in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake and Indian Ocean...

In Search of Ecumenism That Is Live-giving and Healing At the eighth assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1998, the delegates agreed that up to the next assembly the Council should focus on Africa and its...

A court Tuesday backed Turkey's long-held position that the Istanbul-based Orthodox Patriarch is only the head of the city's tiny Greek Orthodox community and not the spiritual leader of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians.The decision has no influence on the status of Ecumenical Patriarch...

Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation.The statement brought swift criticism from Protestant leaders. "It...