Perhaps we should celebrate the plurality of critical methods, adopt a tolerantly ecumenical posture and rejoice in our freedom from the tyranny of any single procedure

It sets out as an ecumenical rallying force, embracing left-wing social democrats

He declared, first, that democracy was imperative for the ongoing thought-liberation campaign to steer China’s course towards modernization, and second, that ecumenical unity should take priority over efforts to clarify past mistakes.

In his philosophy he practiced an ecumenicism that in a lesser mind would strike us as suspicious or even craven.

in dramatic contrast to the ecumenicism of an Addison or Steele