ecclesia

Examples of ecclesia in the following topics:

• The Ecclesia

  • Ecclesias are different from churches because they typically must compete with other religious voices in a community.
  • A slight modification of the church type is that of ecclesia.
  • Ecclesias are also typically not the sole religious body in a particular societal space.
  • Because of this, it is considered an ecclesia.
  • In this way, certain ecclesia fail to meet the requirements for a church.

• Dura-Europos

  • House churches were known as domus ecclesiae, Greek for house and assembly.
  • Domus ecclesiae emerged in third century Rome and are closely tied to domestic Roman architecture of this period, specifically to the peristyle house in which the rooms were arranged around a central courtyard.

• The Church-Sect Typology

  • A slight modification of the church type is that of ecclesia.
  • Ecclesias include the above characteristics of churches with the exception that they are generally less successful at garnering absolute adherence among all of the members of the society and are not the sole religious body.

• Cult

  • Becker created four categories by splitting church into "ecclesia" and "denomination", and sect into "sect" and "cult."

• Early Christian Art

  • The house church in general was known as the domus ecclesiae, Latin for house and assembly.
  • Domi ecclesiae emerged in third-century Rome and are closely tied to domestic Roman architecture of this period, specifically to the peristyle house in which the rooms were arranged around a central courtyard.

• The Justinian Code

  • The provisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis also influenced the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church: it was said that ecclesia vivit lege romana — the church lives by Roman law.

• Discontent with the Roman Catholic Church

  • It was taken literally from the last chapter of Wycliffe's book, De ecclesia, and his treatise, De absolutione a pena et culpa.