church unity
Christians worshiping together
Church unity is the ideal of harmony and cooperation among Christian believers or denominations, despite doctrinal differences.
It can refer to unity within a single congregation or broader efforts toward reconciliation between traditions—Catholic and Protestant, for instance.
The concept draws on biblical calls for believers to be "one body": The pastor preached on church unity after the split over worship styles.
- ecumenicalPromoting religious unity
- interchurchBetween Christian denominations
- catholicityBroad-minded inclusiveness
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- breaking breadSharing food communally
dialogue · denomination · reformation · prayer · joint prayer · koinonia · creed · alliance · communion · reconciliation · council · fellowship · synod · interfaith dialogue · common ground · Trinity · shared faith · doctrine
- church historyapostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism, Reformation
- Church disputesschism, Great Schism, Arian controversy, Monophysitism, iconoclasm
- early churchapostles, apostolic fathers, Acts of the Apostles, Council of Nicaea, Paul
- Modern ChristianityVatican II, ecumenism, evangelicalism, liberation theology, Billy Graham
- CorinthiansPaul, Corinth, First Corinthians, Second Corinthians, Chloe
- Ecumenismecumenical, ecumenism, interchurch, cross-denominational, intercommunion
church unityschism
Formal organizational fracture
church split · disunity · denominationalism · sectarianism · fragmentation