Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The political assembly of citizens of an ancient Greek state.
- n. A church or congregation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
- n. A church, either as a body or as a building.
- n. The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
- n. A church, either as a body or as a building.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An assembly; the great assembly of the people in certain ancient Greek states, as Athens, at which every free citizen had a right to vote.
- n. A society for Christian worship; a church; a congregation: the Greek and Latin name, sometimes used in English writing with reference to the early church.
Etymologies
Examples
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The term ecclesia (ekklesia) here employed is the Greek rendering of the
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Hore canonice omnes in ecclesia tractim et distincte taliter dicantur ....
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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The word ecclesia stands for both an assembly and a church.
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Note 72: Malmesbury, Canal, 137: "Qui cum ludibunda dulcedine ubi fuisset exquirerent, ille puerili innocentia nihil occulendum arbitratus, — quid enim illa aetas deliquisse putaret? — in ecclesia se fuisse et azimum panem … asseruit."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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Indeed, the phrase ecclesia semper reformanda, is something that applies not just to one portion of the church.
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It borrowed the designation ecclesia from the old popular assembly, and liturgy from the services required by law of the richer citizens in the popular festivities.
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In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia, which is synonymous with the Hebrew kahal of the Old
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We find the word ecclesia used in the following senses in the
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“Church” is the Greek word ecclesia and the Hebrew word Q’hal, which means a sacred assembly—God’s people gathered together to be his own.
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Now comes the last theological note: the union of husband and wife is the extension of the union of Christ and His Church; the household becomes what tradition calls ecclesia domestica, the domestic church.
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