NOUN
- the branch of theology concerned with the nature and the constitution and the functions of a church
How To Use ecclesiology In A Sentence
- If it weren't for paedobaptism, I could put up with Presbyterian ecclesiology--but my eyeballs still pop when someone starts talkin' 'bout sprinkin'. The grace of forgetfulness - BatesLine
- Ecclesiology, soteriology, missiology, eschatology, and pneumatology are expressive terms attached to various understandings or interpretations of God, or the acts of God. Philocrites: A religion still seeking definition.
- Central to his ecclesiology is the impossibility of determining the presence of grace in another's soul, which militates against identifying members of the elect with certainty, and therefore against excommunicating any of them from the Church, as well as ruling out popular election as a means of instituting just civil dominium. John Wyclif's Political Philosophy
- The whole effect was massive, mediaeval, architectural, a celebration of jubilant ecclesiology and secular decoration. GOTHIC PURSUIT
- On the most important theological issues, including ecclesiology, Roman Catholics are genuinely closer to the Orthodox than to Protestants.
- The deposition and election of popes by a council obviously had far-reaching implications for ecclesiology: By what authority had these actions been carried out?
- Covenantal theology is also ‘new’ and aspects of ecclesiology and eschatology have awaited the last several centuries for finer definition and clarity.
- While recently going through an edition of the Ordo Romanus Primus which was published with translation and commentary as part of the Library of Liturgiology and Ecclesiology for English Readers, I happened to notice a plate such as this which showed the ambo of the duomo of Ravello: Ambos, or Ambones
- Within the Christian church the new technology fragmented theology and ecclesiology, producing Protestantism in all of its variety, dynamism, confusion and contradiction.
- One of the best documents to read for those who have questions about Catholic ecclesiology is Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church; it was an essential text for me when I was working though many questions in my journey to and into the Catholic Church. Ecumenism