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- ↑ Meland, Bernard E. (1933). "Friedrich Heiler and the High Church Movement in Germany". The Journal of Religion . 13 (2). University of Chicago Press: 139–49. doi:10.1086/481292. ISSN 1549-6538. JSTOR 1196857. S2CID 170415895.
- ↑ Swidler, Leonard J.: The Ecumenical Vanguard: The History of the Una Sancta Movement Archived 2007-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
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