| Firstly, although one can find a few verses of the Quran that sound an eirenic note, in the main it could not be called an ecumenical text. |
| Contemporary Evangelicals applaud Whitefield's eirenic sentiments, but have forgotten why he wrote the letter in the first place. |
| Those who paid more attention to the threat from popery argued for an eirenic approach to Dissent, in the hope of fostering Protestant unity. |
| There is also an eirenic critique of dispensational and reconstructionist alternatives to covenant theology. |
| He was always declaring that the business of the Church is eirenic and not Polemic. |
| Wolfe's forthcoming book on Erasmus will surely reflect on his famously eirenic influence amid the more-than-merely-cultural wars of the 16th century. |
