But one might also argue that this decision was wisely taken: the whole issue of ecumenicity was situated in the wrong context, that is, of discussing the principle of economy. ❋ Mike L (2007)
Perhaps the desire for ecumenicity blunted the power of prayer times, though ecumenicity was solely Christian and did not extend to denying the name of Christ. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In addition to his British decorations, the French awarded him the Legion of Honour; the Belgians, the Order of Leopold and, as a mark of the ecumenicity of the man, he had the distinction among Roman Catholic prelates of joining an Orange order, when he accepted from the grateful Dutch, the Order of Orange Nassau. ❋ Unknown (1965)
This has, de facto, been the formal test of ecumenicity; and it would be necessary even in the hypothesis that the pope himself were fallible. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
For ecumenicity in the adequate sense all the bishops of the world in communion with the Holy See should be summoned, but it is not required that all or even a majority should be present. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
It is physically impossible to bring together all the bishops of the world, nor is there any standard by which to determine even an approximate number, or proportion, of prelates necessary to secure ecumenicity. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Even they who refuse to see in the papal confirmation an authentic testimony and sentence, declaring infallibly the ecumenicity of the council and its decrees to be a dogmatic fact, must admit that it is a sanative act and supplies possible defects and shortcomings; the Ecumenical authority of the pope is sufficient to impart validity and infallibility to the decrees he makes his own by officially ratifying them. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Chalcedon, affords the best proof that, in the sense of the Church, the essential constituent element of ecumenicity is less the proportion of bishops present to bishops absent than the organic connection of the council with the head of the Church. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
+ Theories of conciliar and of papal infallibility do not logically stand or fall together, since in the Catholic view the co-operation and confirmation of the pope in his purely primatial capacity are necessary, according to the Divine constitution of the Church, for the ecumenicity and infallibility of a council. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The number of bishops present required to constitute an Ecumenical council cannot be strictly defined, nor need it be so deigned, for ecumenicity chiefly depends on co-operation with the head of the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
And as the pope's supremacy is also an essential factor in the constitution of an ecumenical council -- and has in fact been the formal and determining factor in deciding the ecumenicity of those very councils whose authority is recognized by Eastern schismatics and Anglicans -- it naturally occurs to enquire how conciliar infallibility is related to papal. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The representative assembly of any other body of Christians, however widely ramified, must seem insignificant when contrasted with the real ecumenicity of the Vatican Council. ❋ 1830-1907 (1897)
The Karmic Laws are universal and so the belief in a life after death has to be accepted in a spirit of ecumenicity.
Many previously ignored topics such as compulsory celibacy for the priesthood, birth control, and ecumenicity were discussed without limits. ❋ Unknown (2009)
His All Holiness delivered a very important address entitled "Discerning God's Presence in the World" in which he emphasized "the primacy of ecumenicity or the value of opening up in a world that expects us 'always to be prepared to give an answer to everyone that asks us to give the reason for the hope within us.'" ❋ Unknown (2009)
I think he is tacitly acknowledging that if we inject the gospel into the political apparatus of the pro-life movement, we will undermine the ecumenicity that holds the movement together. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Whether we're discussing the ecumenical councils of the first millennium as distinct from councils of disputed ecumenicity or merely local authority, or liturgical texts that are standard throughout Orthodoxy as distinct from those peculiar to this or that local tradition, I've never encountered anything which would begin to persuade me that Orthodoxy is committed to viewing the schism with Rome as something more than a dispute between two sectors of "the"Church whose differences arise more from historical and cultural exigencies than from irreformable doctrine. ❋ Mike L (2007)
conquering [hunger] in the Third World should be the ecumenical preoccupation of all people, regardless of [faith], in [the Western] world. ❋ Sexydimma (2013)
If [you came] to understand that the 'virgin birth' was ecumenically contrived, would you still need to [believe it]? What about [walking on water]...? ❋ YAWA (2018)
