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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="دراسات كنسية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="دراسات كنسية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekklesiologiya" title="Ekklesiologiya – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Ekklesiologiya" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE" title="ইক্লিসিওবিদ্যা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ইক্লিসিওবিদ্যা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Эклезіялогія – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Эклезіялогія" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%91%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Эклезыялёгія – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Эклезыялёгія" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Еклисиология – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Еклисиология" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclesiologia" title="Eclesiologia – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Eclesiologia" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekleziologie" title="Ekleziologie – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Ekleziologie" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglwyseg" title="Eglwyseg – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Eglwyseg" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekklesiologi" title="Ekklesiologi – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ekklesiologi" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekklesiologie" title="Ekklesiologie – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ekklesiologie" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eklesioloogia" title="Eklesioloogia – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Eklesioloogia" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BA%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Εκκλησιολογία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Εκκλησιολογία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclesiolog%C3%ADa" title="Eclesiología – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Eclesiología" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eklezioscienco" title="Eklezioscienco – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Eklezioscienco" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eklesiologia_kristau" title="Eklesiologia kristau – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Eklesiologia kristau" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="کلیساشناسی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کلیساشناسی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccl%C3%A9siologie" title="Ecclésiologie – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ecclésiologie" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclesiolox%C3%ADa" title="Eclesioloxía – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Eclesioloxía" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%90%ED%9A%8C%EB%A1%A0" title="교회론 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="교회론" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0" title="कलीसियाशास्त्र – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="कलीसियाशास्त्र" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eklesiologi" title="Eklesiologi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Eklesiologi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiologia" title="Ecclesiologia – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ecclesiologia" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekleziolo%C4%A3ija" title="Eklezioloģija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Eklezioloģija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclesiolojia" title="Eclesiolojia – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Eclesiolojia" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyh%C3%A1ztan" title="Egyháztan – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Egyháztan" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eklezi%C3%B4l%C3%B4jia" title="Ekleziôlôjia – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Ekleziôlôjia" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiologie" title="Ecclesiologie – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Ecclesiologie" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%95%99%E4%BC%9A%E8%AB%96" title="教会論 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="教会論" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekklesiologi" title="Ekklesiologi – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Ekklesiologi" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="علم الکلیسیا – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="علم الکلیسیا" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eklezjologia" title="Eklezjologia – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Eklezjologia" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclesiologia" title="Eclesiologia – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Eclesiologia" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclesiologie" title="Eclesiologie – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Eclesiologie" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Экклезиология – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Экклезиология" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiology" title="Ecclesiology – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Ecclesiology" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekleziol%C3%B3gia" title="Ekleziológia – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" 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title="Church discipline">discipline</a>, its <a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">eschatology</a>, and its <a href="/wiki/Clergy" title="Clergy">leadership</a>. </p><p>In its early history, one of the Church's primary ecclesiological issues had to do with the status of <a href="/wiki/Gentile" title="Gentile">Gentile</a> members in what had become the New Testament fulfilment of the essentially <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jewish</a> Old Testament church. It later contended with such questions as whether it was to be governed by a council of <a href="/wiki/Presbyter" title="Presbyter">presbyters</a> or a single <a href="/wiki/Bishop" title="Bishop">bishop</a>, how much authority the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Rome" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Rome">bishop of Rome</a> had over other major bishops, the role of the Church in the world, whether salvation was possible outside of the institution of the Church, the relationship between the Church and the State, and questions of theology and <a href="/wiki/Liturgy" title="Liturgy">liturgy</a> and other issues. Ecclesiology may be used in the specific sense of a particular church or <a href="/wiki/Christian_denomination" title="Christian denomination">denomination</a>'s character, self-described or otherwise. This is the sense of the word in such phrases as <a href="/wiki/Catholic_ecclesiology" title="Catholic ecclesiology">Catholic ecclesiology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Protestant_ecclesiology" title="Protestant ecclesiology">Protestant ecclesiology</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecumenical">ecumenical</a> ecclesiology. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The roots of the word <i>ecclesiology</i> come from the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Greek</a> <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἐκκλησία</span></span>, <i>ekklēsia</i> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>: <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ecclesia#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:ecclesia">ecclesia</a></i>) meaning "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/congregation" class="extiw" title="wikt:congregation">congregation</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/church" class="extiw" title="wikt:church">church</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>notes 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">-λογία</span></span>, <i><a href="/wiki/-logy" title="-logy">-logia</a></i>, meaning "words", "knowledge", or "logic", a combining term used in the names of sciences or bodies of knowledge. </p><p> The similar word <i>ecclesialogy </i>first appeared in the quarterly journal <i><a href="/wiki/The_British_Critic" class="mw-redirect" title="The British Critic">The British Critic</a></i> in 1837, in an article written by an anonymous contributor<sup id="cite_ref-TCM48_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TCM48-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who defined it thus: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We mean, then, by Ecclesialogy, a science which may treat of the proper construction and operations of the Church, or Communion, or Society of Christians; and which may regard men as they are members of that society, whether members of the Christian Church in the widest acceptation of the term, or members of some branch or communion of that Church, located in some separate kingdom, and governed according to its internal forms of constitution and discipline.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> However, in volume 4 of the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Camden_Society" title="Cambridge Camden Society">Cambridge Camden Society</a>'s journal <i>The Ecclesiologist</i>, published in January 1845, that society (the CCS) claimed that they had invented the word <i>ecclesiology</i>:<sup id="cite_ref-TCM48_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TCM48-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>...as a general organ of Ecclesiology; that peculiar branch of science to which it seems scarcely too much to say, that this very magazine gave first its being and its name.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><i>The Ecclesiologist</i> was first published in October 1841 and dealt with the study of the building and decoration of churches. It particularly encouraged the restoration of Anglican churches back to their supposed Gothic splendour and it was at the centre of the wave of <a href="/wiki/Victorian_restoration" title="Victorian restoration">Victorian restoration</a> that spread across England and Wales in the second half of the 19th century. Its successor <i>Ecclesiology Today</i> is still, as of 2017<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, being published by The Ecclesiological Society (successor to the CCS, now a <a href="/wiki/Registered_charity" class="mw-redirect" title="Registered charity">registered charity</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The situation regarding the etymology has been summed up by <a href="/wiki/Alister_McGrath" title="Alister McGrath">Alister McGrath</a>: "'Ecclesiology' is a term that has changed its meaning in recent theology. Formerly the science of the building and decoration of churches, promoted by the Cambridge Camden Society, the Ecclesiological Society and the journal The Ecclesiologist, ecclesiology now stands for the study of the nature of the Christian church."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Catholic_ecclesiology">Catholic ecclesiology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Catholic ecclesiology"><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/Catholic_ecclesiology" title="Catholic ecclesiology">Catholic ecclesiology</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saint_Raphael_Catholic_Church_(Springfield,_Ohio)_-_stained_glass,_Upon_this_Rock,_detail_-_St._Peter%27s_Basilica.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Saint_Raphael_Catholic_Church_%28Springfield%2C_Ohio%29_-_stained_glass%2C_Upon_this_Rock%2C_detail_-_St._Peter%27s_Basilica.jpg/220px-Saint_Raphael_Catholic_Church_%28Springfield%2C_Ohio%29_-_stained_glass%2C_Upon_this_Rock%2C_detail_-_St._Peter%27s_Basilica.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Saint_Raphael_Catholic_Church_%28Springfield%2C_Ohio%29_-_stained_glass%2C_Upon_this_Rock%2C_detail_-_St._Peter%27s_Basilica.jpg/330px-Saint_Raphael_Catholic_Church_%28Springfield%2C_Ohio%29_-_stained_glass%2C_Upon_this_Rock%2C_detail_-_St._Peter%27s_Basilica.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Saint_Raphael_Catholic_Church_%28Springfield%2C_Ohio%29_-_stained_glass%2C_Upon_this_Rock%2C_detail_-_St._Peter%27s_Basilica.jpg/440px-Saint_Raphael_Catholic_Church_%28Springfield%2C_Ohio%29_-_stained_glass%2C_Upon_this_Rock%2C_detail_-_St._Peter%27s_Basilica.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2696" data-file-height="2699" /></a><figcaption>Stained-glass window in a Catholic church depicting <a href="/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica" title="St. Peter's Basilica">St. Peter's Basilica</a> in Rome sitting "Upon this rock," a reference to Matthew 16:18.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most present-day Catholics interpret Jesus as saying he was building his church on the rock of the Apostle Peter and the line of popes who claim Petrine succession from him.</figcaption></figure> <p>Catholic ecclesiology today has a plurality of models and views, as with all Catholic Theology since the acceptance of scholarly <a href="/wiki/Biblical_criticism" title="Biblical criticism">Biblical criticism</a> that began in the early to mid-20th century. This shift is most clearly marked by the encyclical <i><a href="/wiki/Divino_afflante_Spiritu" title="Divino afflante Spiritu">Divino afflante Spiritu</a></i> in 1943. <a href="/wiki/Avery_Dulles" title="Avery Dulles">Avery Robert Cardinal Dulles</a>, S.J. contributed greatly to the use of models in understanding ecclesiology. In his work <i>Models of the Church</i>, he defines five basic models of the Church that have been prevalent throughout the history of the Catholic Church. These include models of the Church as institution, as mystical communion, as sacrament, as herald, and as servant.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ecclesiological model of Church as an institution holds that the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> alone is the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church", and is the only Church of divine and apostolic origin led by the <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Pope</a>. This view of the Church is dogmatically defined Catholic doctrine, and is therefore <i><a href="/wiki/De_fide" class="mw-redirect" title="De fide">de fide</a></i>. In this view, the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>— composed of all baptized, professing Catholics, both clergy and laity—is the unified, visible society founded by <a href="/wiki/Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Christ">Christ</a> himself, and its hierarchy derives its spiritual authority through the centuries, via <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_succession" title="Apostolic succession">apostolic succession</a> of its bishops, most especially through the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Rome" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Rome">bishop of Rome</a> (the Pope) whose successorship comes from <a href="/wiki/St._Peter_the_Apostle" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Peter the Apostle">St. Peter the Apostle</a>, to whom Christ gave "the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven". Thus, the Popes, in the Catholic view, have a God-ordained universal jurisdiction over the whole Church on earth. The Catholic Church is considered Christ's mystical body, and the universal sacrament of salvation, whereby Christ enables human to receive sanctifying grace. </p><p>The model of Church as Mystical Communion draws on two major Biblical images, the first of the "Mystical Body of Christ" (as developed in Paul's Epistles) and the second of the "People of God." This image goes beyond the Aristotelian-Scholastic model of <i>"<a href="/wiki/Communitas_Perfecta" class="mw-redirect" title="Communitas Perfecta">Communitas Perfecta</a>"</i> held in previous centuries. This ecclesiological model draws upon sociology and articulations of two types of social relationships: a formally organized or structured society (Gesellschaft) and an informal or interpersonal community (Gemeinschaft). The Catholic theologian Arnold Rademacher maintained that the Church in its inner core is community (Gemeinschaft) and in its outer core society (Gesellschaft). Here, the interpersonal aspect of the Church is given primacy and that the structured Church is the result of a real community of believers. Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Yves_Congar" title="Yves Congar">Yves Congar</a> argued that the ultimate reality of the Church is a fellowship of persons. This ecclesiology opens itself to ecumenism<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was the prevailing model used by the <a href="/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council" title="Second Vatican Council">Second Vatican Council</a> in its ecumenical efforts. The Council, using this model, recognized in its document <i><a href="/wiki/Lumen_gentium#Ecclesiology_(Chapter_I)" title="Lumen gentium">Lumen gentium</a></i> that the Body of Christ <a href="/wiki/Subsistit_in" title="Subsistit in">subsists in</a> a visible society governed by the <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Successor of Peter</a> and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside its visible structure.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eastern_Orthodox_ecclesiology">Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox</a> perspective, the Church is one, even though it is manifested in many places. Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology operates with a plurality in unity and a unity in plurality. For Eastern Orthodoxy there is no 'either / or' between the one and the many. No attempt is made to subordinate the many to the one (the Roman Catholic model), nor the one to the many (the Protestant model). In this view, it is both canonically and theologically correct to speak of the Church and the churches, and vice versa.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEErickson1992490–508_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEErickson1992490–508-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historically, that ecclesiological concept was applied in practice as <a href="/wiki/Patriarchal_pentarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriarchal pentarchy">patriarchal pentarchy</a>, embodied in ecclesiastical unity of five major patriarchal thrones (Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPheidas200565–82_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPheidas200565–82-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is disagreement between the <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarchate_of_Constantinople" title="Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople">Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Patriarchate_of_Moscow" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriarchate of Moscow">Patriarchate of Moscow</a> on the question of separation between ecclesiological and theological primacy and separation of the different ecclesiological levels: </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mospat.ru/en/2013/12/26/news96344/">Position of the Moscow Patriarchate on the problem of primacy in the Universal Church</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.patriarchate.org/theological-and-other-studies/-/asset_publisher/GovONi6kIiut/content/primus-sine-paribus-hapantesis-eis-to-peri-proteiou-keimenon-tou-patriarcheiou-moschas-tou-sebasmiotatou-metropolitou-prouses-k-elpidophorou?inheritRedirect=false&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patriarchate.org%2Ftheological-and-other-studies%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_GovONi6kIiut%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_pos%3D1%26p_p_col_count%3D2&_101_INSTANCE_GovONi6kIiut_languageId=en_US">First without Equals. A Response to the Text on Primacy of the Moscow Patriarchate, by Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, Metropolitan of Bursa</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ecclesiology_of_the_Church_of_the_East">Ecclesiology of the Church of the East</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ecclesiology of the Church of the East"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Historical development of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Church of the East</a> outside the political borders of the <a href="/wiki/Late_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Roman Empire">Late Roman Empire</a> and its eastern successor, the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>, resulted in the creation of its distinctive <a href="/wiki/Christian_theology" title="Christian theology">theological</a> and ecclesiological traditions, regarding not only the questions of internal institutional and administrative organization of the Church, but also the questions of universal ecclesiastical order.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJugie19355–25_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJugie19355–25-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Protestant_ecclesiology">Protestant ecclesiology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Protestant ecclesiology"><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/Protestant_ecclesiology" title="Protestant ecclesiology">Protestant ecclesiology</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AugsburgConfessionArticle7OftheChurch.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/AugsburgConfessionArticle7OftheChurch.jpg/220px-AugsburgConfessionArticle7OftheChurch.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/AugsburgConfessionArticle7OftheChurch.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="302" data-file-height="301" /></a><figcaption>A 17th-century illustration of <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Augsburg_Confession#Article_VII:_Of_the_Church." class="extiw" title="wikisource:Augsburg Confession">Article VII: Of the Church</a> from the <i>Augsburg Confession</i>, which states "...one holy Church is to continue forever. The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered." Here the rock from Matthew 16:18 refers to the preaching and ministry of Jesus as the Christ, a view discussed at length in the 1537 <i><a href="/wiki/Treatise_on_the_Power_and_Primacy_of_the_Pope" title="Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope">Treatise</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Magisterial_Reformation_ecclesiology">Magisterial Reformation ecclesiology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Magisterial Reformation ecclesiology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a> argued that because the Catholic Church had "lost sight of the doctrine of grace", it had "lost its claim to be considered as the authentic Christian church". This argument was open to the counter-criticism from Catholics that he was thus guilty of <a href="/wiki/Schism_(religion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Schism (religion)">schism</a> and the heresy of <a href="/wiki/Donatism" title="Donatism">Donatism</a>, and in both cases therefore opposing central teachings of the early Church and most especially the <a href="/wiki/Church_father" class="mw-redirect" title="Church father">Church father</a> <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine_of_Hippo" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Augustine of Hippo">St. Augustine of Hippo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HT200_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HT200-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also challenged the Catholic doctrine that the Catholic Church was <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indefectible" class="extiw" title="wikt:indefectible">indefectible</a> and <a href="/wiki/Infallible" class="mw-redirect" title="Infallible">infallible</a> in its dogmatic teachings. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radical_Reformation_ecclesiology">Radical Reformation ecclesiology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Radical Reformation ecclesiology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is no single "Radical Reformation Ecclesiology". A variety of views is expressed among the various "<a href="/wiki/Radical_Reformation" title="Radical Reformation">Radical Reformation</a>" participants. </p><p>A key "Radical Reformer" was <a href="/wiki/Menno_Simons" title="Menno Simons">Menno Simons</a>, known as an "<a href="/wiki/Anabaptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anabaptist">Anabaptist</a>". He wrote: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>They verily are not the true congregation of Christ who merely boast of his name. But they are the true congregation of Christ who are truly converted, who are born from above of God, who are of a regenerate mind by the operation of the Holy Spirit through the hearing of the divine Word, and have become the children of God, have entered into obedience to him, and live unblamably in his holy commandments, and according to his holy will with all their days, or from the moment of their call.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>This was in direct contrast to the hierarchical, <a href="/wiki/Sacrament" title="Sacrament">sacramental</a> ecclesiology that characterised the incumbent <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> tradition as well as the new <a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a> and other prominent <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> movements of the <a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a>. </p><p>Some other Radical Reformation ecclesiology holds that "the true church [is] in heaven, and no institution of any kind on earth merit[s] the name 'church of God.'"<sup id="cite_ref-HT200_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HT200-17"><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=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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<ul><li>Augsburg Confession, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Augsburg_Confession#Article_XXVIII:_Of_Ecclesiastical_Power." class="extiw" title="s:Augsburg Confession">Article XXVIII: Of Ecclesiastical Power</a></li> <li>1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1689_Baptist_Confession_of_Faith#Chapter_26:_Of_the_Church" class="extiw" title="s:1689 Baptist Confession of Faith">Chapter 26: Of the Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theology_of_John_Calvin#Ecclesiology_and_sacraments" title="Theology of John Calvin">Theology of John Calvin § Ecclesiology and sacraments</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In the Greco-Roman world, <i>ecclesia</i> was used to refer to a lawful assembly, or a called legislative body. As early as <a href="/wiki/Pythagoras" title="Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a>, the word took on the additional meaning of a community with shared beliefs.<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> This is the meaning taken in the Greek translation of the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Scriptures" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew Scriptures">Hebrew Scriptures</a> (the <a href="/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint">Septuagint</a>), and later adopted by the Christian community to refer to the assembly of believers.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <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=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=10" 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 .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Diogenes Laertius, 8.41 (available <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/dl/dl08.html">online</a>, retrieved 22 May 2008).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">F. Bauer, W. Danker, <i>A Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature,</i> third ed., (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2000), <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἐκκλησία</span></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-TCM48-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-TCM48_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TCM48_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWhite1979" class="citation book cs1">White, James F. 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Oxford: Blackwell. p. 127. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780631198963" title="Special:BookSources/9780631198963"><bdi>9780631198963</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Ecclesiology&rft.btitle=The+Blackwell+Encyclopedia+of+Modern+Christian+Thought&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pages=127&rft.pub=Blackwell&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=9780631198963&rft.aulast=McGrath&rft.aufirst=Alister+E.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DDvPMFcGIZgkC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEcclesiology" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16:18&version=rsvce">Matthew 16:18</a></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"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCardinal_Dulles2002" class="citation book cs1">Cardinal Dulles, Avery (2002). <i>Models of the Church</i>. New York: Image Book, Random House Inc. p. contents. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-13368-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-13368-5"><bdi>0-385-13368-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Models+of+the+Church&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=contents&rft.pub=Image+Book%2C+Random+House+Inc.&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0-385-13368-5&rft.aulast=Cardinal+Dulles&rft.aufirst=Avery&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEcclesiology" class="Z3988"></span></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">John Anthony Berry, "Communion Ecclesiology in Theological Ecumenism", Questions Liturgiques/Studies in Liturgy 90/2-3 (2009): 92–105.</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://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html"><i>Lumen gentium</i> § 8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEErickson1992490–508-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEErickson1992490–508_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFErickson1992">Erickson 1992</a>, pp. 490–508.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPheidas200565–82-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPheidas200565–82_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPheidas2005">Pheidas 2005</a>, pp. 65–82.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJugie19355–25-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJugie19355–25_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJugie1935">Jugie 1935</a>, pp. 5–25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bookofconcord.org/treatise.php#para22"><i>Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, paragraph 22</i></a> and following</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HT200-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HT200_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HT200_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">McGrath, Alister. E. (1998). <i>Historical Theology, An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought</i>. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. p.200.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGeorge1988" class="citation book cs1">George, Timothy (1988). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/theologyofreform0000geor"><i>Theology of the Reformers</i></a></span>. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/theologyofreform0000geor/page/285">285</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Theology+of+the+Reformers&rft.place=Nashville%2C+Tennessee&rft.pages=285&rft.pub=Broadman+Press&rft.date=1988&rft.aulast=George&rft.aufirst=Timothy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftheologyofreform0000geor&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEcclesiology" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Sources"><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 id="CITEREFErickson1992" class="citation journal cs1">Erickson, John H. (1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/juristcu52&div=35">"The Local Churches and Catholicity: An Orthodox Perspective"</a>. <i>The Jurist</i>. <b>52</b>: 490–508.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Jurist&rft.atitle=The+Local+Churches+and+Catholicity%3A+An+Orthodox+Perspective&rft.volume=52&rft.pages=490-508&rft.date=1992&rft.aulast=Erickson&rft.aufirst=John+H.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fheinonline.org%2FHOL%2FLandingPage%3Fhandle%3Dhein.journals%2Fjuristcu52%26div%3D35&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEcclesiology" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJugie1935" class="citation journal cs1">Jugie, Martin (1935). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.persee.fr/doc/rebyz_1146-9447_1935_num_34_177_2817">"L'ecclésiologie des Nestoriens"</a>. <i>Échos d'Orient</i>. <b>34</b> (177): 5–25. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3406%2Frebyz.1935.2817">10.3406/rebyz.1935.2817</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=%C3%89chos+d%27Orient&rft.atitle=L%27eccl%C3%A9siologie+des+Nestoriens&rft.volume=34&rft.issue=177&rft.pages=5-25&rft.date=1935&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3406%2Frebyz.1935.2817&rft.aulast=Jugie&rft.aufirst=Martin&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.persee.fr%2Fdoc%2Frebyz_1146-9447_1935_num_34_177_2817&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEcclesiology" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPheidas2005" class="citation book cs1">Pheidas, Blasios I. (2005). "Papal Primacy and Patriarchal Pentarchy in the Orthodox Tradition". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3mxbj99yRaQC"><i>The Petrine Ministry: Catholics and Orthodox in Dialogue</i></a>. New York: The Newman Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780809143344" title="Special:BookSources/9780809143344"><bdi>9780809143344</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Papal+Primacy+and+Patriarchal+Pentarchy+in+the+Orthodox+Tradition&rft.btitle=The+Petrine+Ministry%3A+Catholics+and+Orthodox+in+Dialogue&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=The+Newman+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=9780809143344&rft.aulast=Pheidas&rft.aufirst=Blasios+I.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3mxbj99yRaQC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEcclesiology" 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=Ecclesiology&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Stone, Bryan P., ed. <i>A Reader in Ecclesiology</i>. 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title="Saint">Sainthood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scotism" title="Scotism">Scotism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomism" title="Thomism">Thomism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transubstantiation" title="Transubstantiation">Transubstantiation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultramontanism" title="Ultramontanism">Ultramontanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veneration#Roman_Catholic,_Orthodox" title="Veneration">Veneration</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"><div id="Eastern_Orthodox_Church" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_theology" title="Eastern Orthodox theology">Eastern Orthodox Church</a></div></th></tr><tr><td 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(theology)">Symphonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabor_Light" title="Tabor Light">Tabor Light</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Theoria">Theoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)" title="Theosis (Eastern Christian theology)">Theosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theotokos" title="Theotokos">Theotokos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"><div id="Oriental_Orthodoxy" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox Churches">Oriental Orthodoxy</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miaphysitism" title="Miaphysitism">Miaphysitism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monophysitism" title="Monophysitism">Monophysitism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monoenergism" title="Monoenergism">Monoenergism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monothelitism" title="Monothelitism">Monothelitism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aphthartodocetae" title="Aphthartodocetae">Aphthartodocetism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"><div id="Protestantism" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Protestant_theologian" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant theologian">Protestantism</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Protestant_theology" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant theology">General</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adiaphora#Adiaphora_in_Christianity" title="Adiaphora">Adiaphora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_the_Old_Covenant" title="Christian views on the Old Covenant">Christian views on the Old Covenant</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Covenant_theology" title="Covenant theology">Covenant theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dispensationalism" title="Dispensationalism">Dispensationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supersessionism" title="Supersessionism">Supersessionism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelicalism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_theology" title="Evangelical theology">Evangelical theology</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Five_solae" title="Five solae">Five <i>solae</i></a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Sola_fide" title="Sola fide">Sola fide</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sola_gratia" title="Sola gratia">Sola gratia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sola_scriptura" title="Sola scriptura">Sola scriptura</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Soli_Deo_gloria" title="Soli Deo gloria">Soli Deo gloria</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Solus_Christus" title="Solus Christus">Solus Christus</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_fundamentalism" title="Christian fundamentalism">Fundamentalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protestant_ecclesiology" title="Protestant ecclesiology">Protestant ecclesiology</a> <ul><li><a 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anglican_doctrine" title="Anglican doctrine">Anglican</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Catholicism" title="Anglo-Catholicism">Anglo-Catholicism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branch_theory" title="Branch theory">Branch theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broad_church" title="Broad church">Broad church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_churchmanship" title="Central churchmanship">Center church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_church" title="High church">High church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Low_church" title="Low church">Low church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Believer%27s_baptism" title="Believer's baptism">Believer's baptism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immersion_baptism" title="Immersion baptism">Immersion baptism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptists_in_the_history_of_separation_of_church_and_state" title="Baptists in the history of separation of church and state">Separation of church and state</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Theology_of_Martin_Luther" title="Theology of Martin Luther">Lutheran</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Confessional_Lutheranism" title="Confessional Lutheranism">Confessional Lutheranism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Catholic" title="Evangelical Catholic">Evangelical Catholic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haugean_movement" title="Haugean movement">Haugean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loci_Theologici" class="mw-redirect" title="Loci Theologici">Loci Theologici</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutheran_orthodoxy" title="Lutheran orthodoxy">Lutheran orthodoxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutheran_scholasticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran scholasticism">Lutheran scholasticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Lutheranism" title="Neo-Lutheranism">Neo-Lutheranism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietism" title="Pietism">Pietism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theology_of_the_Cross" title="Theology of the Cross">Theology of the Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two_kingdoms_doctrine" title="Two kingdoms doctrine">Two kingdoms</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baptism_with_the_Holy_Spirit" title="Baptism with the Holy 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Christianity">spread</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Early_Christianity" title="Early Christianity">Early<br />Christianity</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Christianity" title="Jesus in Christianity">in Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus" title="Nativity of Jesus">Nativity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptism_of_Jesus" title="Baptism of Jesus">Baptism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Jesus" title="Ministry of Jesus">Ministry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount" title="Sermon on the Mount">Sermon on the Mount</a></li> <li><a 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title="Lutheranism">Lutheran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quakers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reformed_Christianity" title="Reformed Christianity">Reformed</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Rite_Orthodoxy" title="Western Rite Orthodoxy">Western Rite Orthodoxy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Eastern Orthodox</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Church</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox 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title="Original sin">Original sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salvation_in_Christianity" title="Salvation in Christianity">Salvation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Born_again" title="Born again">Born again</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_liturgy" title="Christian liturgy">Liturgy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_liturgy" title="Catholic liturgy">Catholic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_liturgy" title="Eastern Catholic liturgy">Eastern Catholic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_worship" title="Eastern Orthodox worship">Eastern Orthodox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protestant_liturgy" title="Protestant liturgy">Protestant</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_worship" title="Christian worship">Worship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariology" title="Mariology">Mariology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theotokos" title="Theotokos">Theotokos</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">Saints</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angels_in_Christianity" 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