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| ==Origin== | | ==Origin== |
| [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 | | [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] | + | *[https://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 [https://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 [[https://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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint]), and later adopted by the Christian [[community]] to refer to the assembly of believers. |
| ==Definitions== | | ==Definitions== |
| *1: of or relating to a church especially as an established [[institution]] | | *1: of or relating to a church especially as an established [[institution]] |
| *2: suitable for use in a church | | *2: suitable for use in a church |
| ==Description== | | ==Description== |
− | [[Authority]] in the Church, or '''ecclesiastical''' authority, will verify, though in its own way, the [[concept]] already developed in the general treatment of the term authority. If the Church is a true [[society]] of [[human being]]s, a group seeking a common end through concerted [[action]], it is [[inevitable]] that there is need of [[control]], some power to [[determine]] ways and means, to allot [[functions]], to re-dress grievances—in a [[word]], to protect against the centrifugal [[tendencies]] that jeopardize communal [[action]]. Men in the [[supernatural]] order still display the [[diversity]] of viewpoint that makes [[authority]] [[necessary]] wherever life is to be lived within [[community]] [[structures]].[http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX3407700958&v=2.1&u=tel_a_uots&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w] | + | [[Authority]] in the Church, or '''ecclesiastical''' authority, will verify, though in its own way, the [[concept]] already developed in the general treatment of the term authority. If the Church is a true [[society]] of [[human being]]s, a group seeking a common end through concerted [[action]], it is [[inevitable]] that there is need of [[control]], some power to [[determine]] ways and means, to allot [[functions]], to re-dress grievances—in a [[word]], to protect against the centrifugal [[tendencies]] that jeopardize communal [[action]]. Men in the [[supernatural]] order still display the [[diversity]] of viewpoint that makes [[authority]] [[necessary]] wherever life is to be lived within [[community]] [[structures]].[https://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX3407700958&v=2.1&u=tel_a_uots&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w] |
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| [[Category: Religion]] | | [[Category: Religion]] |