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==Origin==

==Origin==

[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ecclesiasticus, from Late [[Greek]] ekklēsiastikos, from Greek, of an assembly of [[citizens]], from ekklēsiastēs

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ecclesiasticus, from Late [[Greek]] ekklēsiastikos, from Greek, of an assembly of [[citizens]], from ekklēsiastēs

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century]

Ecclesiology comes from the [[Greek]] ἐκκλησία (ekklesia), which entered [[Latin]] as ecclesia. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_world Greco-Roman world], the [[word]] was used to refer to a lawful assembly, or a called [[legislative]] body. As early as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras Pythagoras], the [[word]] took on the additional [[meaning]] of a [[community]] with [[shared]] [[beliefs]]. This is the meaning taken in the [[Greek]] [[translation]] of the [[Hebrew Scriptures]] (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint]), and later adopted by the Christian [[community]] to refer to the assembly of believers.

Ecclesiology comes from the [[Greek]] ἐκκλησία (ekklesia), which entered [[Latin]] as ecclesia. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_world Greco-Roman world], the [[word]] was used to refer to a lawful assembly, or a called [[legislative]] body. As early as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras Pythagoras], the [[word]] took on the additional [[meaning]] of a [[community]] with [[shared]] [[beliefs]]. This is the meaning taken in the [[Greek]] [[translation]] of the [[Hebrew Scriptures]] (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint]), and later adopted by the Christian [[community]] to refer to the assembly of believers.