| 词条 | Communion (religion) |
| 释义 |
The bond uniting Christians as individuals and groups with each other and with Jesus is described as communion. OriginThe term is derived from Latin communio (sharing in common).[1] This basic meaning of the word predates its Christian uses. In Ancient Greek, κοινωνία could apply to a business partnership, to fellowship of life in marriage, to a spiritual relationship with divinity, to comradely fellowship between friends, to a community or society.[2] New TestamentIn religious contexts, "communion" is the usual English translation of the Greek term κοινωνία (koinonia), which appears in the New Testament, but nowhere in the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint, and which sometimes has a secular significance, as in the case of the partnership between fishermen spoken of in {{bibleverse|Luke||5:7-10}}. As a noun, or in its adjectival or verbal forms, it is found in 43 verses of the New Testament. In addition, the noun is found in some manuscripts (used for producing the English translation known as the King James Version, but not for more recent translations) in {{bibleverse||Ephesians|3:9}}. In the New Testament the word is applied, according to the context, to communion, sharing or fellowship with:
Of these usages, Bromiley's International Standard Bible Encyclopedia selects as especially significant the following meanings: I. Common life in general (only in {{bibleverse||Acts|2:42}}) II. Communion between particular groups, the most remarkable instance of which was that between Jews and Gentiles III. Communion in the Body and Blood of Christ IV. Sharing in divine revelation and with God himself ({{bibleverse|1|John|1:1-7}}).[3] AspectsBetween churchesBy metonymy, the term is used of a group of Christian churches that have this close relationship of communion with each other. An example is the Anglican Communion. If the relationship between the churches is complete, involving fullness of "those bonds of communion – faith, sacraments and pastoral governance – that permit the Faithful to receive the life of grace within the Church",[5] it is called full communion. However, the term "full communion" is frequently used in a broader sense, to refer instead to a relationship between Christian churches that are not united, but have only entered into an arrangement whereby members of each church have certain rights within the other. If a church recognizes that another church, with which it lacks bonds of pastoral governance, shares with it some of the beliefs and essential practices of Christianity, it may speak of "partial communion" between it and the other church. Communion of saintsThe communion of saints is the relationship that, according to the belief of Christians, exists between them as people made holy by their link with Christ. That this relationship extends not only to those still in earthly life, but also to those who have gone past death to be "away from the body and at home with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8) is a general belief among Christians.[6] Their communion is believed to be "a vital fellowship between all the redeemed, on earth and in the next life, that is based on the common possession of the divine life of grace that comes to us through the risen Christ".[7] Since the word rendered in English as "saints" can mean not only "holy people" but also "holy things", "communion of saints" also applies to the sharing by members of the church in the holy things of faith, sacraments (especially the Eucharist), and the other spiritual graces and gifts that they have in common. The term "communion" is applied to sharing in the Eucharist by partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, an action seen as entering into a particularly close relationship with Christ. Sometimes the term is applied not only to this partaking but to the whole of the rite or to the consecrated elements. See also
References1. ^American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050902232311/http://bartleby.com/61/82/C0518200.html |date=2005-09-02 }} 2. ^Robert Porter Lynch & Ninon Prozonic Papanicolas: How the Greeks Created the First Age of Innovation 3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=wo8csizDv0gC&pg=PA752 Geoffrey W. Bromiley, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: A-D] (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995 {{ISBN|0-8028-3781-6}}) 4. ^Gospel Figures in Art by Stefano Zuffi 2003 {{ISBN|978-0-89236-727-6}} p. 252 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://clsa.org/content/files/USCCB_memo_2006_0405.pdf/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-04-15 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319091142/http://clsa.org/content/files/USCCB_memo_2006_0405.pdf |archivedate=2009-03-19 |df= }} 6. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mu17cvoKe38C&pg=PA258&dq=Hobart+%22saints+here+below%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d0xNU62JDeK47QbQvIDADQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Hobart%20%22saints%20here%20below%22&f=false John Henry Hobart, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Protestant Episcopal Church (Swords, Stanford & Company, 1840), p. 258] 7. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=-fQ9IzrfADIC&pg=PA149 Kenneth Baker, Fundamentals of Catholicism] (Ignatius Press 1983 {{ISBN|978-0-89870027-5}}), p. 149 Bibliography
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