conventicle
Sign in to saveright|thumb|300px|A Covenanters' conventicle. ''The Covenanters' Preaching, painting by George Harvey A conventicle originally meant "an assembly" and was frequently used by ancient writers to mean "a church." At a semantic level, conventicle is a Latinized synonym of the Greek word for church'', and references Jesus' promise in Matthew 18:20, "Where two or three are met together in my name."
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- Jesus' disciples as conventiclers
- Conventicles in the early Roman Empire
- Conventicles in the later Roman Empire
- Conventicles in pre-Reformation Europe
- England under the Tudors
- England under the Stuarts
- Scotland under the Stuarts
- Scotland after the Revolution
- Low Countries
- France
- Germany
- Nordic countries
- Russia
- Japan
- United States
- Conventicles in other religions
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right|thumb|300px|A Covenanters' conventicle. ''The Covenanters' Preaching, painting by George Harvey A conventicle originally meant "an assembly" and was frequently used by ancient writers to mean "a church." At a semantic level, conventicle is a Latinized synonym of the Greek word for church'', and references Jesus' promise in Matthew 18:20, "Where two or three are met together in my name."
Over time, the term became linked to meetings of religious associations, particularly private gatherings for worship. Later, it became a negative term, implying that those within a conventicle opposed the ruling ecclesiastical authorities; for example, as applied to a plot of mutinous monks in a monastery.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “conventicle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.