irenics

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noun (Eccl.) That branch of Christian science which treats of the methods of securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology.

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J.J. Tayler's address of last month follows in the same path, -- all in favour of the "irenics," instead of polemics.

Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
The attempts at reunion, pursued with perseverance during the seventeenth century, either among confessions drifting from the Reformation, or among all Christian churches, gathered together, mo - mentarily, deeply religious irenics and politically minded men, primarily concerned with civil peace.

RELIGIOUS TOLERATION ELISABETH LABROUSSE 1968
The philosophy, to which Leibniz thus ascribed irenics as one of its chief aims, is a partial idealism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
No doubt, Melanchthon also had in mind his far-reaching irenics at Augsburg, when he wrote in the Preface to the

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
J.J. Tayler's address of last month follows in the same path, ” all in favour of the “irenics,” instead of polemics.

Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870