ecclesiology

English

Etymology

ecclesia +‎ -ology

Noun

ecclesiology (countable and uncountable, plural ecclesiologies)

1. The branch of theology concerned with the doctrines, role etc. of a church.
2. The science of building and decorating churches.

Derived terms

• communion ecclesiology

 

Related terms

• ecclesiologic, ecclesiological, ecclesiologist, ecclesiologistic
• see Ecclesiastes

Translations

branch of theology

• Catalan: eclesiologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教會學／教会学 (jiàohuìxué)

• Czech: ekleziologie, eklesiologie
• Danish: ekklesiologi, ecclesiologi
• Dutch: ecclesiologie (nl)
• Esperanto: ekleziologio
• Estonian: eklesioloogia
• Finnish: ekklesiologia (fi)
• French: ecclésiologie (fr) f
• German: Ekklesiologie (de) f
• Greek: εκκλησιολογία (el) (ekklisiología)
• Icelandic: kirkjufræði f
• Italian: ecclesiologia f
• Korean: 교회론 (gyohoeron)
• Macedonian: еклисиологија f (eklisiologija)
• Norwegian: ekklesiologi
• Polish: eklezjologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: eclesiologia
• Russian: экклезиоло́гия (ru) f (ekkleziológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еклисиологија f, еклезиологија f

  Roman: eklisiologija f, ekleziologija (sh) f

• Spanish: eclesiología (es) f