ecclesiology
IPA: ɪkɫiziˈɑɫʌdʒi
noun
- The branch of theology concerned with the doctrines, role etc. of a church.
- The science of building and decorating churches.
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Examples of "ecclesiology" in Sentences
- Ecclesiology and funerary style.
- Magisterial Reformation ecclesiology.
- Dever's ecclesiology and the nine marks.
- Communitarian or egalitarian ecclesiology.
- The ecclesiology of the church is very simple.
- A new ecclesiology thus matured in this context.
- Regarding ecclesiology, that is a separate topic.
- A vital document in Anglican polity and ecclesiology.
- And that is why this is about ecclesiology, not homosexuality.
- I recently reviewed O'Malley's book for a graduate course in ecclesiology.
- Catholic ecclesiology is no different on this, with the exception of the Pope.
- But the point is that the phenomenon of discovering Christ outside the visible boundaries of the Catholic Church does nothing to call the ecclesiology of said Church into question.
- The most in-depth study of Ratzinger's ecclesiology is likely Joseph Ratzinger: Life in the Church and Living Theology, Fundamentals of Ecclesiology, by Maximilian Heinrich Heim, which for $12 (the current online price) is a steal.
- 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.
- Such Orthodox complain that, in the Catholic Church, there is only one bishop with many auxiliaries; but historically as well as today, Rome has exerted much less de facto authority over local ordinaries than popular notions of papal supremacy would suggest; and given her official ecclesiology, that is as it should be.
- 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.