Recognition (Ecumenical relations) (Topical Term)
- Broader heading: Christian union
- Broader heading: Ecumenical movement
Work cat.: 94-45073: Kelly, G.P. Recognition, 1995.
Dict. of the Ecumenical movement; Encyc. dict. rel.; New Cath. encyc.; Ox. dict. Chr. ch.
Here are entered works on the way in which Christian sects or world communions see and accept each other's expressions of faith, order, ministry, and worship as sufficiently similar to or identical with their own that they may enter into union or intercommunion or otherwise intensify their ecumenical relations.