What does a ecumenical Christian mean?

Answer 1

Non-demoninational. The word "ecumenical" refers to all Christians, regardless of whether they are Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, etc.

Ecumenical is not to be confused with "interfaith," which refers to all faiths, not just those who believe in Christ.

Answer 2

Excepting,God is almighty,all powerful,all knowing,all seeing,And is an, all answering God,capable of finding good in all other religions... That's the making of a ecumenical christian.....

Answer 3

Interfaith; a mixture of religions together.

In reality the term ecumenical Christian is a misnomer.

Answer 4

Yes, I have heard of them. And at least I'm educated enough to admit that these councils drove the last nails into the coffin of primitive Christianity. They solidified the inroads that Neoplatonism had made into Christianity and continue to keep people from the truth today. Those men were not prophets or apostles to deliver doctrine to us. They were ordinary and not always great human beings who sometimes did the best they could. For you to pretend that they were spot-on and infallible is hard to swallow.

Answer 5

The word ecumenism (also oecumenism, œcumenism) is derived from Greek οἰκουμένη (oikoumene), which means "the inhabited world", and was historically used with specific reference to the Roman Empire. The word is used predominantly by and with reference to Christian denominations separated by doctrine, history and practice.

In its broadest meaning, ecumenism refers to initiatives aimed at worldwide religious unity. It is understood in this sense in the Baha'i vision that advocates a greater shared spirituality across Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths as part of its core beliefs.

In a narrower and more common sense, ecumenism refers to the movement towards co-operation among Christians. For some people, ecumenism is based on the idea that there should be a single Christian Church, but normally it is refers to Christians of different Christian denominations working together. Thus ecumenism in reality is usually just the promotion of co-operation and better understanding between religious groups or denominations, without aiming at unity.




Christian ecumenism, the narrower sense referred to above, is the promotion of unity or cooperation between distinct religious groups or denominations of Christianity. For Catholics it can have the goal of reconciling all who profess Christian faith into a single, visible organization, for example, through union with the Roman Catholic Church.

According to Edmund Schlink, most important in Christian ecumenism is that people focus primarily on Christ, not on separate church organizations. In his book Ökumenische Dogmatik (1983), he says Christians who see the risen Christ at work in the lives of various Christians and in diverse churches, realize that the unity of Christ's church has never been lost (pages 694-700; also his "Report," Dialog 1963, 2:4, 328), but has instead been distorted and obscured by different historical experiences and by spiritual myopia. Both are overcome in renewed faith in Christ. Included in that is responding to his admonition (John 17; also Philippians 2) to be one in him and love one another as a witness to the world. The result of mutual recognition would be a discernable worldwide fellowship, organized in a historically new way (pages 707-708; also Skibbe, A Quiet Reformer 1999, 122-4; Schlink, The Vision of the Pope 2001).

Christian ecumenism is distinguished from interfaith pluralism. Ecumenism in this broad sense is called religious pluralism, as distinguished from ecumenism within a faith movement. The interfaith movement strives for greater mutual respect, toleration, and co-operation among the world religions.

Ecumenism as interfaith dialogue between representatives of diverse faiths, does not necessarily intend reconciling their adherents into full, organic unity with one another but simply to promote better relations. It promotes toleration, mutual respect and cooperation, whether among Christian denominations, or between Christianity and other faiths.

Answer 6

Generally it means that they are willing to work with and accept people of other belief systems.

Answer 7

Willing to break down denominational barriers and treat all Christians as one body. You know, like the Creeds say: "ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC and APOSTOLIC"

And as Jesus prayed in the Garden to His Father: "That they would all be as one..."

Answer 8

It means they believe all religions are valid and want unity with all religions while keeping their own label.

Answer 9

Basically everything Christianity isn't.

Answer 10

a concept is replaced for another concept.