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The ekklesia of ancient Athens is particularly well-known. It was the popular assembly, open to all male citizens as soon as they qualified for citizenship. [1] In 594 BC, Solon allowed all Athenian citizens to participate, regardless of class.
In the Greco-Roman world, ecclesia (Ancient Greek: ἐκκλησία; Latin: ecclesia) was used to refer to a lawful assembly, or a called legislative body. As early as Pythagoras, the word took on the additional meaning of a community with shared beliefs. [1]
Ecclesia (ancient Greece) or Ekklēsia, the principal assembly of ancient Greece during its Golden Age; Ecclesia (Sparta), the citizens' assembly of Sparta, often wrongly called apella; The Greek and Latin term for the Christian Church as a whole; Ekklesia (think tank), a British think tank examining the role of religion in public life
The ecclesia or ekklesia (Greek: ἐκκλησία) was the citizens' assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. Unlike its more famous counterpart in Athens , the Spartan assembly had limited powers, as it did not debate; citizens could only vote for or against proposals.
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an ecclesial community is a Christian religious group that does not meet the Catholic definition of a "Church".Although the word "ecclesial" itself means "church" or "gathering" in a political sense in Koine Greek, the Catholic Church applies the term "Church" in the proper sense only to Christian communities that, in the Catholic Church's view, "have ...
Christian churches were sometimes called κυριακόν kuriakon (adjective meaning "of the Lord") in Greek starting in the 4th century, but ekklēsia and βασιλική basilikē were more common. [17] The word is one of many direct Greek-to-Germanic loans of Christian terminology, via the Goths.
The phrase presumably lost its original religious meaning and became a conventional formula as used by the early Christians. Most of the time, dates of Christian inscriptions must be judged from context, but when dates are given, they appear in Roman consular notation, that is, by naming the two consuls who held office that year. The method of ...
An 1842 edition of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History. The Ecclesiastical History (Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία, Ekklēsiastikḕ Historía; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica), also known as The History of the Church and Church History, is a 4th-century chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century, composed by ...