Nondenominational vs Ecumenical - What's the difference?
nondenominational | ecumenical |
Lacking a denomination; not specific to a particular religion or sect.
Something that does not classify people by race, religion or sexuality.
Something that does not classify people by gender.
(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.
* 1999 , Dr Martyn Percy, The Guardian , 5 Jun 1999:
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 215:
* 2010 , ‘Britain's ancient shame in Slovenia’, The Economist , 30 Oct 2010:
General, universal, worldwide.
As adjectives the difference between nondenominational and ecumenical
is that nondenominational is lacking a denomination; not specific to a particular religion or sect while ecumenical is pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.nondenominational
English
Alternative forms
* non-denominationalAdjective
(-)- There will be a nondenominational service, open to all, on Saturday beneath the redwoods.
ecumenical
English
Alternative forms
* * oecumenicalAdjective
(-)- Within Europe, the church's ecumenical partnerships have demonstrated that ecclesial unity may have political resonances.
- Nicaea has always been regarded as one of the milestones in the history of the Church, and reckoned as the first council to be styled ‘general’ or ‘oecumenical ’.
- Rather touchingly, an ecumenical mass of reparation for the victims of the massacres was held on October 29, in the very English village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The service was led by the Catholic bishop of Northampton, with Archbishop Metropolitan Stres from Ljubljana and the Anglican bishop of Buckingham.