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
- The sacred marriage motif has had an enormous impact through the centuries, not only in ecclesiology, but also in Mariology and the theology and spirituality of vowed religious life.
- High-Church ecclesiology had long relied on a concept of the Church as a divine society where participating in communion mystically united all worshippers with the body of Christ.
- That is not an understatement as what follows is both an incisive critique of much current missiology/ecclesiology as well as a challenge to boldly re-imagine what it means to do mission and be the church in a post-Christian age.
- A special approach to ecclesiology was not only important for Primitive Baptists, it was the essential way in which they remained the true church.
- In fact, my biggest concern with dispensationalism is its misuse of Scripture in the service of seriously flawed forms of Christology and ecclesiology.
- The result was to put the mystery of Mary in the context of ecclesiology and Christology, reining in the excessive expansion of Mariological speculation.
- Any person who wishes to get a panoramic view of modern ecclesiology will be well served by this volume.
- 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. Damned either way
- I do not think I changed my mind about theology or ecclesiology or the fate of Christianity in the modern world.
- Biblical eschatology should drive our ecclesiology.