“Yet more surprising than such relevance is the irenic quality of this advice seeking a hospitable engagement with neighbors of other faiths.”

“Always willing to engage in serious, even fierce, political debate, Jim Finn was as well an irenic man and a hospitable one.”

“Written in a sympathetic and irenic spirit, this book echoes a striking number of the same criticisms of the current Roman exercise of primacy.”

“Young has interesting treatments of irenical, ecumenical elements, and even humility in some later sonnets.”

“It is a method of inquiry, irenical and ecumenical, uniting all who submit to its discipline in a search for truth, whose destination cannot be known in advance.”

“Irenical has become a commonly-used adjective to design an idealist and pacific conception, such as the democratic peace theory.”