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What does irenic mean?

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  1. (theology) Promoting or fitted to promote peace; conciliatory, non-confrontational; peaceful.
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The report's irenic and tentative tone, and the complete absence of bullet points in its text, should dispel any such misimpressions.
Yet more surprising than such relevance is the irenic quality of this advice seeking a hospitable engagement with neighbors of other faiths.
Reimer supports Rawlyk's idea that Canadian evangelicalism is more irenic than its U.S. counterpart, but calls for real data to support the thesis.
So the Church, recognising that its irenic precepts were largely ignored, tried to reduce the savagery of war.
Written in a sympathetic and irenic spirit, this book echoes a striking number of the same criticisms of the current Roman exercise of primacy.
Obviously, these claims do not make for irenic relations with adherents to those religions they have improved and replaced.

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