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By the 20th century the ecumenical movement had become perhaps the single most prominent feature of contemporary Christian history. Doctrinal conversations were held at the multilateral level under the heading of Faith and Order and at the bilateral level between particular pairs among the global confessional families or communions. They often started as what might be called “comparative symbolics”—the matching of existing confessional statements—but they then moved into a concentration on the dogmatic topic in hand. Although the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople, which holds honorary primacy within Eastern Orthodoxy, took a significant first step by its proposal of a “league ...(100 of 123588 words)