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Unions, ecclesiastical
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1. TerminologyEcclesiastical unions are institutional mergers of confessionally distinct churches involving rapprochement (of various kinds) in doctrine, polity, and worship. They represent a contrary movement to the early modern tendency to confessional diversification of Christianity (Confessionalization) and are part of the prehistory of the comprehensive 20th century efforts to represent the unity of the Christian ecumene. Concretely, the term is applied to two independent phenomena: the affi…
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2022-11-07
