ecclesiology

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the branch of theology concerned with the nature and the constitution and the functions of a church

Etymology

From ecclesio- + -logy. Coined by a writer of the British Critic in 1837, as ecclesialogy.

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