While the goal is laudable (and indeed inevitable before the [[Second Coming]], according to [[Revelation]]), the ecumenical movement on the whole tends toward [[modernist]] views on the [[Bible]] and as such is criticized by [[fundamentalist]]s. Leaders of the Ecumenical Movement stress cooperation between Christians of different denominations. They translate the Bible more creatively and less specifically. Any possibly divisive terms are softened and made meaningless. | While the goal is laudable (and indeed inevitable before the [[Second Coming]], according to [[Revelation]]), the ecumenical movement on the whole tends toward [[modernist]] views on the [[Bible]] and as such is criticized by [[fundamentalist]]s. Leaders of the Ecumenical Movement stress cooperation between Christians of different denominations. They translate the Bible more creatively and less specifically. Any possibly divisive terms are softened and made meaningless. |