That's what Graham wasn't, " Christianity Today editor Neff said . " The word used around here is irenic.
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Although Foxe clearly favored Knox, he was irenic by temperament and expressed his disgust at " the violence of the warring factions ."
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Jones was an irenic and conciliatory churchman who worked successfully among the diverse and at times conflicting ethnic and confessional groups within early American Presbyterianism.
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The author, a dean at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is commendably irenic, although he seems resolute about giving open theism the least possible credence.
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Raji was always stating that the business of the Eastern Orthodox Church as a whole is not polemic but irenic, operating toward peace, moderation and conciliation.
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Meanwhile, inside the Italian Church, the protracted feud between Communion and Liberation and Italy's more moderate and irenic lay movement Catholic Action continued throughout the 1980s.
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Erasmus wrote extensively on topics related generally to peace, and an irenic approach is part of the texture of his thought, both on theology and in relation to politics:
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Despite the frequency and severity of polemics directed against him, Erasmus continued . . . to practice a kind of discourse that is critical and ironic, yet modest and irenic.
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Pierce was widely popular throughout the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, owing no doubt in a large degree to his irenic spirit, his skill with people, and his achievements in education.
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Jamal Khwaja s basic approach to philosophy and religion is irenic rather than polemical, and he attempts to transcend the traditional polarities of Rationalism and Empiricism, Idealism and Materialism, Theism and Atheism.
