Oikumene is Hellenistic Greek word which was used to refer to "the known world" in Alexander The Great's Hellenistic Age. It comes from the Greek word "oikoumenikos", meaning "the inhabited world". Alexander the Great fighting the Persian king Darius (Pompeii mosaic, from a 3rd century BC original Greek painting, now lost). ... The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance...
Oikumene is not the congregation, but the world, according to the Bible.
Oikumene from which the word ecumenism comes means the world and not oneness of the believers or unity of the believers, and the Bible teaches of the oneness of the believers, that the believers would be one just as the Father and the Son are one.
Ecumenism and oikumene is the world and the spirit of the world is under the leadership of Satan, and Satan tries to mislead God's people to think that ecumenism is what Jesus spoke of in John 17.
Oikumene, acción ciudadana por la paz y la equidad
Oikumene es defineix com un grup d'acció ciutadana per la pau i l'equitat, i vol ser un espai on les qüestions internacionals i de relacions Nord-Sud siguin tractades des de la perspectiva de la visió crítica, de la difusió, de la denúncia i de la sensibilització ciutadana.
Dins d'aquests camps, Oikumene té la voluntat de dur a terme activitats de mobilització, d'investigació i de formació.