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navigation-not-searchable">"Christian communion" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Koinonia_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Koinonia (disambiguation)">Koinonia (disambiguation)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communion_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Communion (disambiguation)">Communion (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p> <b><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">Koinonia</i></span></b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/ɔɪ/: 'oi' in 'choice'">ɔɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span>),<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <b>communion</b>, or <b>fellowship</b> in Christianity is the bond uniting Christians as individuals and groups with each other and with Jesus Christ. It refers to <a href="/wiki/Group_cohesiveness" title="Group cohesiveness">group cohesiveness</a> among Christians. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pre-Christian_antecedents">Pre-Christian antecedents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Pre-Christian antecedents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">Koinonia</i></span> is a <a href="/wiki/Transliterated" class="mw-redirect" title="Transliterated">transliterated</a> form of the <a href="/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek">Greek</a> word <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">κοινωνία</span></span>, which refers to concepts such as fellowship, joint participation, partnership, the share which one has in anything, a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution. In the <i><a href="/wiki/Politics_(Aristotle)" title="Politics (Aristotle)">Politics</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> it is used to mean a community of any size from a single family to a <a href="/wiki/Polis" title="Polis">polis</a>. As a polis, it is the Greek for republic or commonwealth. In later Christianity it identifies the idealized state of fellowship and unity that should exist within the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> church, the <a href="/wiki/Body_of_Christ" title="Body of Christ">Body of Christ</a>. This usage may have been borrowed from the early Epicureans—as it is used by Epicurus' Principal Doctrines 37–38.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term communion, derived from <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a> <i>communio</i> ('sharing in common'),<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is related. The term "Holy Communion" normally refers to the Christian rite also called the <a href="/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist">Eucharist</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_Testament">New Testament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: New Testament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The essential meaning of the <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">koinonia</i></span> embraces concepts conveyed in the English terms community, communion, joint participation, sharing and intimacy. <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">Koinonia</i></span> can therefore refer in some contexts to a jointly contributed gift.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The word appears 19 times in most editions of the Greek New Testament. In the <a href="/wiki/New_American_Standard_Bible" title="New American Standard Bible">New American Standard Bible</a>, it is translated "fellowship" twelve times, "sharing" three times, and "participation" and "contribution" twice each.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">Koinonia</i></span> appears once in the ancient Greek translation of the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> known as the <a href="/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint">Septuagint</a>, in Leviticus 6:2 <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is found in 43 verses of the New Testament as a noun (<i>koinōnia</i> 17x, <i>koinōnos</i> 10x, <i>sugkoinōnos</i> 4x), in its adjectival (<i>koinōnikos</i> 1x), or verbal forms (<i>koinōneō</i> 8x, <i>sugkoinōneō</i> 3x) . The word is applied, according to the context, to sharing or fellowship, or people in such relation, with: </p> <ul><li>a divine nature (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Peter%201:4&version=nrsv">2 Peter 1:4</a>), God (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20John%201:6&version=nrsv">1 John 1:6</a>), the Father and His Son (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20John%201:3&version=nrsv">1 John 1:3</a>), Jesus, Son of God (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Corinthians%201:9&version=nrsv">1 Corinthians 1:9</a>), his sufferings (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Philippians%203:10&version=nrsv">Philippians 3:10</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Peter%204:13&version=nrsv">1 Peter 4:13</a>), his future glory (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Peter%205:1&version=nrsv">1 Peter 5:1</a>), the Holy Spirit (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Corinthians%2013:14&version=nrsv">2 Corinthians 13:14</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Philippians%202:1&version=nrsv">Philippians 2:1</a>)</li> <li>the blood and the body of Christ (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Corinthians%2010:16&version=nrsv">1 Corinthians 10:16</a>), pagan sacrifices and gods (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Corinthians%2010:18–20&version=nrsv">1 Corinthians 10:18–20</a>)</li> <li>fellow Christians, their sufferings and the faith (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Acts%202:42&version=nrsv">Acts 2:42</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Galatians%202:9&version=nrsv">Galatians 2:9</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20John%201:3&version=nrsv">1 John 1:3</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20John%201:7&version=nrsv">1:7</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Hebrews%2010:33&version=nrsv">Hebrews 10:33</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Revelation%201:9&version=nrsv">Revelation 1:9</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Philemon%201:6&version=nrsv">Philemon 1:6</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Philemon%201:17&version=nrsv">1:17</a>)</li> <li>a source of spiritual favours (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Romans%2011:17&version=nrsv">Romans 11:17</a>), the gospel (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Corinthians%209:23&version=nrsv">1 Corinthians 9:23</a>), light and darkness (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Corinthians%206:14&version=nrsv">2 Corinthians 6:14</a>)</li> <li>others' sufferings and consolation (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Corinthians%201:7&version=nrsv">2 Corinthians 1:7</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Philippians%204:14&version=nrsv">Philippians 4:14</a>), their evangelizing work (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Philippians%201:5&version=nrsv">Philippians 1:5</a>), their graces or privileges (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Romans%2015:27&version=nrsv">Romans 15:27</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Philippians%201:7&version=nrsv">Philippians 1:7</a>), their material needs, to remedy which assistance is given (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Romans%2012:13&version=nrsv">Romans 12:13</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Romans%2015:26–27&version=nrsv">15:26–27</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Corinthians%208:4&version=nrsv">2 Corinthians 8:4</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Corinthians%209:13&version=nrsv">9:13</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Galatians%206:6&version=nrsv">Galatians 6:6</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Philippians%204:15&version=nrsv">Philippians 4:15</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Timothy%206:18&version=nrsv">1 Timothy 6:18</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Hebrews%2013:16&version=nrsv">Hebrews 13:16</a>)</li> <li>the evil deeds of others (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Matthew%2023:30&version=nrsv">Matthew 23:30</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Ephesians%205:11&version=nrsv">Ephesians 5:11</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Timothy%205:22&version=nrsv">1 Timothy 5:22</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20John%201:11&version=nrsv">2 John 1:11</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Revelation%2018:4&version=nrsv">Revelation 18:4</a>)</li> <li>the bodily human nature all have in common (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Hebrews%202:14&version=nrsv">Hebrews 2:14</a>)</li> <li>a work partnership, secular or religious (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Luke%205:10&version=nrsv">Luke 5:10</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Corinthians%208:23&version=nrsv">2 Corinthians 8:23</a>)</li></ul> <p>Of these usages, Bromiley's International Standard Bible Encyclopedia selects as especially significant the following meanings: </p> <dl><dd>I. Common life in general (only in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Acts%202:42&version=nrsv">Acts 2:42</a>)</dd> <dd>II. Communion between particular groups, the most remarkable instance of which was that between Jews and Gentiles</dd> <dd>III. Communion in the Body and Blood of Christ</dd> <dd>IV. Sharing in divine revelation and with God himself (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20John%201:1–7&version=nrsv">1 John 1:1–7</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aspects">Aspects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Aspects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sacramental_meaning">Sacramental meaning</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Sacramental meaning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist">Eucharist</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist">Eucharist</a> is the sacrament of communion with one another in the one body of Christ. This was the full meaning of eucharistic <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">koinonia</i></span> in the early <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Hertling_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hertling-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> St. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a> wrote, "the Eucharist is the sacrament of the unity of the Church, which results from the fact that many are one in Christ."<sup id="cite_ref-Aquinas_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aquinas-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Between_churches">Between churches</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Between churches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Full_communion" title="Full communion">Full communion</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Juan_de_Juanes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Juan_de_Juanes.jpg/220px-%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Juan_de_Juanes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Juan_de_Juanes.jpg/330px-%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Juan_de_Juanes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Juan_de_Juanes.jpg/440px-%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Juan_de_Juanes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1215" /></a><figcaption>The Eucharist has been a key theme in the depictions of the <a href="/wiki/Last_Supper_in_Christian_art" title="Last Supper in Christian art">Last Supper in Christian art</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as in this 16th-century <a href="/wiki/Vicente_Juan_Masip" title="Vicente Juan Masip">Juan de Juanes</a> painting.</figcaption></figure> <p>By <a href="/wiki/Metonymy" title="Metonymy">metonymy</a>, the term is used of a group of Christian churches that have this close relationship of communion with each other. An example is the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a>. </p><p>If the relationship between the churches is complete, involving fullness of "those bonds of communion – faith, sacraments and pastoral governance – that permit the Faithful to receive the life of grace within the Church",<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it is called <a href="/wiki/Full_communion" title="Full communion">full communion</a>. However, the term "full communion" is frequently used in a broader sense, to refer instead to a relationship between Christian churches that are not united, but have only entered into an arrangement whereby members of each church have certain rights within the other. </p><p>If a church recognizes that another church, with which it lacks bonds of pastoral governance, shares with it some of the beliefs and essential practices of Christianity, it may speak of "partial communion" between it and the other church. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Between_the_living_and_the_dead">Between the living and the dead</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Between the living and the dead"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Communion_of_saints" title="Communion of saints">Communion of saints</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Communion_of_saints" title="Communion of saints">communion of saints</a> is the relationship that, according to the belief of Christians, exists between them as people made holy by their link with Christ. That this relationship extends not only to those still in earthly life, but also to those who have gone past death to be "away from the body and at home with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8) is a belief among some Christians.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their communion is believed to be "a vital fellowship between all the redeemed, on earth and in the next life, that is based on the common possession of the divine life of grace that comes to us through the risen Christ".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the word rendered in English as "saints" can mean not only "holy people" but also "holy things", "communion of saints" also applies to the sharing by members of the church in the holy things of faith, sacraments (especially the <a href="/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist">Eucharist</a>), and the other spiritual graces and gifts that they have in common. </p><p>The term "communion" is applied to sharing in the Eucharist by partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, an action seen as entering into a particularly close relationship with Christ. Sometimes the term is applied not only to this partaking but to the whole of the rite or to the consecrated elements. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Between_individual_Christians">Between individual Christians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Between individual Christians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <b>Christian fellowship</b> is a community, <a href="/wiki/Social_club" title="Social club">social club</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benefit_society" title="Benefit society">benefit society</a>, and/or a <a href="/wiki/Fraternity" title="Fraternity">fraternal organization</a> whether formal or informal of Christians that worship, pray, cooperate, volunteer, socialize, and associate with each other on the foundation of their shared Christian faith. Members of Christian fellowships may or may not be part of the same <a href="/wiki/Church_(congregation)" title="Church (congregation)">church congregations</a> or <a href="/wiki/Christian_denomination" title="Christian denomination">denominations</a>, although many are associated with a given local church congregation (in turn possibly associated with a given denomination) or an <a href="/wiki/Interdenominationalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Interdenominationalism">interdenominational</a> group of several local area congregations, some are established as <a href="/wiki/Parachurch_organization" title="Parachurch organization">parachurch</a> <a href="/wiki/Voluntary_association" title="Voluntary association">voluntary associations</a> or <a href="/wiki/Student_society" title="Student society">student societies</a>, and others form out of casual <a href="/wiki/Nondenominational_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Nondenominational Christianity">non-denominational</a> <a href="/wiki/Friend_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Friend group">friend groups/social groups</a> among individual Christians in some way affiliated with universities, colleges, schools, other educational institutions, community centers, places of employment, or at any other place, entity, or among neighbors and acquaintances, made up of people who worship, congregate, and socialize together based on shared religious beliefs.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religious_identity" title="Religious identity">Religious identity</a>, the sense of membership in a religious group and its importance to one's self-concept</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Bible Study Tools.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=New+Testament+Greek+Lexicon+%E2%80%93+New+American+Standard&rft.atitle=Koinonia+also+spelt+Kenonia&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biblestudytools.com%2Flexicons%2Fgreek%2Fnas%2Fkoinonia.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKoinonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:0_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Norman DeWitt argues in his book <i>St Paul and Epicurus</i> that many early Christian ideas were borrowed from the Epicureans.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bartleby.com/61/82/C0518200.html">American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050902232311/http://bartleby.com/61/82/C0518200.html">Archived</a> 2005-09-02 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thayer 1885, p. 352.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/inflections.cfm?strongs=G2842&t=kjv&ot=LXX&word=%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD%E1%BD%B7%CE%B1%CF%82">"Koinōnía in the LXX"</a>. <i>Blue Letter Bible</i>. 17 December 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Blue+Letter+Bible&rft.atitle=Koin%C5%8Dn%C3%ADa+in+the+LXX&rft.date=2021-12-17&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blueletterbible.org%2Flang%2Flexicon%2Finflections.cfm%3Fstrongs%3DG2842%26t%3Dkjv%26ot%3DLXX%26word%3D%25CE%25BA%25CE%25BF%25CE%25B9%25CE%25BD%25CF%2589%25CE%25BD%25E1%25BD%25B7%25CE%25B1%25CF%2582&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKoinonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bromiley, Geoffrey W. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wo8csizDv0gC&pg=PA752"><i>The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: A-D</i></a> (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-3781-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-3781-6">0-8028-3781-6</a>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hertling-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hertling_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hertling, L. <i>Communion, Church and Papacy in Early Christianity</i>. Chicago: Loyola University, 1972.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Aquinas-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Aquinas_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">ST III, 82. 2 ad 3; cf. 82. 9 ad 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Gospel Figures in Art</i> by Stefano Zuffi 2003 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89236-727-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-89236-727-6">978-0-89236-727-6</a> p. 252</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSkylstad2006" class="citation web cs1">Skylstad, William S. (Apr 5, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090319091142/http://clsa.org/content/files/USCCB_memo_2006_0405.pdf">"Notification from Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts on the <i>actus formalis defectionis</i>"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Canon Law Society of America</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clsa.org/content/files/USCCB_memo_2006_0405.pdf/">the original</a> on 2009-03-19<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-04-15</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Canon+Law+Society+of+America&rft.atitle=Notification+from+Pontifical+Council+for+Legislative+Texts+on+the+actus+formalis+defectionis&rft.date=2006-04-05&rft.aulast=Skylstad&rft.aufirst=William+S.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fclsa.org%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2FUSCCB_memo_2006_0405.pdf%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKoinonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/acompanionforfe01hobagoog/page/n274">John Henry Hobart, <i>A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Protestant Episcopal Church</i> (Swords, Stanford & Company, 1840), p. 258</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-fQ9IzrfADIC&pg=PA149">Kenneth Baker, <i>Fundamentals of Catholicism</i></a> (Ignatius Press 1983 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89870027-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-89870027-5">978-0-89870027-5</a>), p. 149</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:02-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:02_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Norman DeWitt argues in his book <i>St Paul and Epicurus</i> that many early Christian ideas were borrowed from the Epicureans.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://seminary.grace.edu/understanding-biblical-christian-fellowship/">"Understanding Biblical Christian Fellowship"</a>. <i>Grace Theological Seminary</i>. 2021-03-17<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2022-07-01</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Radical&rft.atitle=What+Counts+as+Christian+%22Fellowship%22%3F&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fradical.net%2Farticle%2Fwhat-counts-as-christian-fellowship%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKoinonia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries</i>. Lockman Foundation. 1998 [1981].</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=NAS+Exhaustive+Concordance+of+the+Bible+with+Hebrew-Aramaic+and+Greek+Dictionaries&rft.pub=Lockman+Foundation&rft.date=1998&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKoinonia" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBromiley1979" class="citation book cs1">Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1979). <i>The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</i>. Grand Rapids, Michigan: <a href="/wiki/William_B._Eerdmans_Publishing_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.">William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+International+Standard+Bible+Encyclopedia&rft.place=Grand+Rapids%2C+Michigan&rft.pub=William+B.+Eerdmans+Publishing+Co.&rft.date=1979&rft.aulast=Bromiley&rft.aufirst=Geoffrey+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKoinonia" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLynchProzonic2006" class="citation web cs1">Lynch, Robert Porter; Prozonic, Ninon (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.enginesofinnovation.com/html/publications.html">"How the Greeks created the First Golden Age of Innovation"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(Microsoft Word)</span>. p. 14<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-04-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=How+the+Greeks+created+the+First+Golden+Age+of+Innovation&rft.pages=14&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=Lynch&rft.aufirst=Robert+Porter&rft.au=Prozonic%2C+Ninon&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enginesofinnovation.com%2Fhtml%2Fpublications.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKoinonia" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRichards1985" class="citation book cs1">Richards, Lawrence O. (1985). <i>Expository Dictionary of Bible Words</i>. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Corporation.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Expository+Dictionary+of+Bible+Words&rft.place=Grand+Rapids%2C+Michigan&rft.pub=Zondervan+Corporation&rft.date=1985&rft.aulast=Richards&rft.aufirst=Lawrence+O.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKoinonia" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThayer1885" class="citation book cs1">Thayer, Joseph H. (1885). <i>Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament</i>. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Greek%E2%80%93English+Lexicon+of+the+New+Testament&rft.place=Grand+Rapids%2C+Michigan&rft.pub=Zondervan+Publishing+House&rft.date=1885&rft.aulast=Thayer&rft.aufirst=Joseph+H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKoinonia" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Lewis-Elgidely, Verna. <i>Koinonia in the Three Great Abrahamic Faiths: Acclaiming the Mystery and Diversity of Faiths</i>. Cloverdale Books, 2007. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-929569-37-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-929569-37-3">978-1-929569-37-3</a></li> <li>Hauk, Gary H. <i>Life Ventures</i>. LifeWay Church Resources, 2012. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4300-0975-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4300-0975-7">978-1-4300-0975-7</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koinonia&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=2842">Lexicon entry for <i>koinonia</i>, common domain</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arlev.co.uk/fellowship.htm">Fellowship as defined in the New Testament</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" 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