What's the difference between ecclesiology and theology?
Ecclesiology
Definition:
(n.) The science or theory of church building and decoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) The paper examines the common elements of social ethics and bioethics in Catholic teaching, describes how ecclesiology shapes Catholic public policy and uses the examples of abortion and health care to illustrate the relationship of Catholic social thought and bioethics.
(2) The argument of the paper is that the character of both Catholic moral theology and ecclesiology shape the broadly defined interest of the church in bioethics.
Theology
Definition:
(n.) The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life."
Example Sentences:
(1) It is essential, therefore, to submit one's loyalties and value judgments to constant scrutiny and questioning and to those theological criteria that make abortion also (though not only) a theological question, a task not without its risks.
(2) The Mormon religion is one of many conservative faith groups upholding theological opposition to same-sex relationships amid widespread social acceptance and the US supreme court’s 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
(3) Literature from theology, philosophy, psychology and nursing was reviewed for contextual usage of the word 'hope'.
(4) DNA sequence analysis of the cDNA clone pACC1 revealed that the coding region of the ACC synthase mRNA spans 493 amino acids corresponding to a 55,779-Da polypeptide; and expression of the coding sequence (pACC1) in Escherichia coli as a COOH terminus hybrid of beta-galactosidase or as a nonhybrid polypeptide catalyzed the conversion of S-adenosylmethionine to ACC (Sato, T., and Theologis, A.
(5) The paper examines two aspects of coitus interruptus as a sexual practice: (1) how, in the age of fertility decline in Western Europe, its meaning was reinterpreted from an earlier theological view that condemned it as licentious to a nineteenth century view that emphasized restraint, and (2) how it was actually experienced by a socially stratified birth-controlling population in rural Sicily, ca 1900-1970.
(6) It is not a theological treatise.” Furthermore, the writer meant that as praise.
(7) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.
(8) "The text in itself is probably not a landmark work of Islamic jurisprudence, but it is important because it adds to … a corpus of treatises by former militants challenging al-Qaida on theological grounds," Thomas Hegghammer of Harvard University said on the Jihadica website.
(9) In 1949, he graduated from the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary.
(10) Edinburgh students called on outside supporters to stage snowball fights in solidarity, while Oxford's Facebook page features support from sympathisers, but also anger from English and theology students unable to get hold of books and data for this week's essays.
(11) During his time at Westcott House theological college in Cambridge, he turned away from the theology of the faculty and from the more catholic Anglicanism of Sir Edwin Hoskyns and later Michael Ramsey.
(12) In developing the relationship of these two dimensions of Catholic moral argument the article highlights how the appeal to natural law categories differs in social ethics and bioethics and how the two topics are received differently in the theological community.
(13) As a consequence, he's the go-to guy for a scathing quote on dissembling theologies and their gullible believers.
(14) Angry US Republicans tell Pope Francis to ‘stick with his job and we’ll stick with ours’ Read more Santorum told a Philadelphia radio station earlier this month: “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we’re good at, which is theology and morality.” Three other Catholic Republican hopefuls: Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio, have yet to speak out on the encyclical.
(15) In 1966 she was sent as a missionary to Brazil at a time when the progressive practices of liberation theology were sweeping through the Catholic church in Latin America.
(16) Michael Kelly (@MichaelKellyIC) It used to be a theology qualification was useful to cover the Vatican, now I'm wishing I did chemistry #Conclave March 13, 2013 12.19pm GMT The Vatican spokespeople seem to be getting a bit bogged down in descriptions of the smoke-making process.
(17) However, the caliphate declaration will be seen in political rather than theological terms.
(18) Evaluative instruments were the Community Mental Health Ideology Scale, two scales adapted from the Theological School Inventory, a self-evaluative competence scale, and a role evaluation scale.
(19) Apt, perhaps, for a man who is preparing to study theology part-time alongside a "portfolio" business career he plans to rebuild once he leaves government.
(20) They are not mutually exclusive | Rodney Croome Read more More importantly, the theological underpinnings of the ACL are distinctly fringe.