ecclesialogy

Yet we cannot but just touch upon the necessity of communicating to the youthful portion of the higher and middle classes, a more complete and systematic knowledge of the main features of theology and ecclesialogy, of ecclesiastical doctrines and discipline and history, than they are now found to possess.

1837 April, “Art[icle] X.—1. Chambers’s Educational Course. […]”, in The British Critic, […], volume XXI, number XLII, London: […] J[ohn,] G[eorge] & F[rancis] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 500

No one who has walked through the cities of Cairo, or Benares, and has also examined the various delineations of Etruscan monuments, can fail to be struck with various evidences of an original unity of the source from which each derived its arts, its polity, its domesticity and its ecclesialogy.

1850 March, “Ancient Etruria”, in The Benares Magazine, volume III, Mirzapore: […] Messrs. Thacker & Co., […], →OCLC, page 196

When the theology is faulty, the ecclesialogy falls apart. When the entire system is reinvented with each successive generation (or even handful of generations), you're bound to lose something...which is one of the concerns I have with people who try to isolate the second Vatican Council from the other councils.

1998 August 19, Legatus, “Interesting trend”, in alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025