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单词 base ecclesial community
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base ecclesial community
base community n. (also more fully base ecclesial community) (esp. in Latin America) a small neighbourhood Christian group, predominantly of laypeople and usually in a poor or rural area, which emphasizes the practical application of religious belief to addressing social and economic problems and inequalities.Often associated with liberation theology. [Originally after Spanish comunidad eclesial de base or Portuguese comunidade eclesial de base.]
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1973 A. Grégory in Contemp. Metamorph. Relig.? (Internat. Conf. Soc. Relig.) ii. 163 The base ecclesial communities..discharge functions that till lately had been the clergy's exclusive reserve. They aim to fill the gaps left by the..decreasing proportion of priests and religious in the population.
1974 Pampa (Texas) Daily News 6 Oct. 3/5 The influx of ‘base communities’ seeking grassroots in larger parishes.
1987 New Yorker 2 Mar. 65/1 There are anywhere from eighty to a hundred thousand active base communities [in Brazil's People's Church].
1992 Sociol. Anal. 53 s56 A new pastoral form was emerging—the base ecclesial communities (CEBs). These originated as an attempt to decentralize the large rural parishes by organizing people into small, lay-led village chapels.
2006 Church Times 21 July 22/3 The conflictual environment that gave birth to the base communities that nurtured liberation theology.
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