noun

• Christian fellowship or communion, with God or, more commonly, with fellow Christians.

  ‘It is important in our time creatively to unfold the essential aim of the church, understood as koinonia.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘It's a kind of high doctrine of humanity that is the foundation of the notion of koinonia and belonging together.’
  • ‘Those who are in koinonia are in fellowship with Christ, the Spirit, one another, and with the work and suffering of the gospel.’
  • ‘It is impossible to grow in koinonia with the living God or with others, when our ‘hearts’ are ‘hard’ in this manner.’
  • ‘In the Eucharist, Jesus' Spirit unites us with him and the Father in a koinonia that has, following Paul, not only ecclesial but cosmological implications.’