Definition of Ecclesiology

1. Noun. The branch of theology concerned with the nature and the constitution and the functions of a church.

Generic synonyms: Divinity, Theology

Definition of Ecclesiology

1. n. The science or theory of church building and decoration.

Definition of Ecclesiology

1. Noun. The branch of theology concerned with the doctrines, role etc. of a church. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ecclesiology

1. [n -GIES]

Medical Definition of Ecclesiology

1. The science or theory of church building and decoration. Origin: Ecclesia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecclesiology

ecclesiastical calendar
ecclesiastical law
ecclesiastical mode
ecclesiastical province
ecclesiastical robe
ecclesiasticall
ecclesiastically
ecclesiasticism
ecclesiastick
ecclesiastics
ecclesiocracy
ecclesiological
ecclesiologies
ecclesiologist
ecclesiologists
ecclesiology (current term)
ecclesiophobia
ecco
eccoriate
eccrine
eccrine acrospiroma
eccrine gland
eccrine poroma
eccrine spiradenoma
eccrinology
eccrises
eccritic
eccritics
eccyclema

Literary usage of Ecclesiology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... and ecclesiology and of the literary study of the English Bible in the Reformed Episcopal Seminary, Philadelphia. In theology he is an adherent of ..."

2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"Of this church we are, through the kindness of the publisher of Mr. Webb's Continental ecclesiology, enabled to present the ground plan. ..."

3. Primitive Catholicism by Pierre Batiffol (1911)
"Had Tertullian died before embracing the Montanist error, his ecclesiology would hardly differ from that of Irenaeus, whose important treatise " Contra ..."

4. Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture by Edward Payson Evans (1896)
"CHAPTER V WHIMSEYS OF ecclesiology AND SYMBOLOGY Universality of the symbolism of the cross—Cruciform phenomena in nature—The sign of the cross in the Old ..."

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