Certain important irenic contributions from Erasmus helped to further the humanist consideration of themes of peace and religious conciliation; these included the " Inquisitio de fide " ( 1524 ), arguing against the papal opinion that Martin Luther was a heretic, and " De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia " ( 1533 ).
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Although formulations such as the " Holy Roman Church " or the " Roman Catholic Church " have sometimes been used by officials of the Catholic Church before, and after the Reformation, especially in the context of ecumenical dialogue where the dialogue partner has a reason to prefer this usage, it has sometimes been considered as a kind of irenic concession.
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Muckraking political pundits and righteously reformist goo-goos were incensed by this fund-raising from the federal property that _ in less populist times _ used to be known as the Executive Mansion, but today's exercise in irenic scholarship focuses on the increasing use of an acronym : Potus, which stands for " president of the United States ."
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In 1884 a Texas preacher named Austin McGary, who had written some articles in the " Gospel Advocate ", began publishing the " Firm Foundation ", which in contradistinction to Lipscomb's irenic manner, grace-laden theology, and more-inclusivist concept of fellowship stridently proclaimed support for rebaptism, McGary's views on that subject being remarkably similar to those of Alexander Campbell had severed fellowship.
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At its foundation, the EPC adopted a list of essential beliefs, " The Essentials of Our Faith, " to state what the EPC views as the " sine qua non " of Evangelical Christianity ( see below ), in part to seek to guarantee that it would not succumb to the theological problems that had plagued its parent denominations during the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy . " The Essentials " is a fuller version of the " evangelical Christians ( namely the Gospel, or Good News about Jesus ), as well as to maintain the irenic orthodoxy that has always been the hallmark of the denomination . ( See " Ethos, " below .)
