what does excommunication mean?

Answer 1

Christians who became unrepentant wrongdoers were to be disfellowshipped.

What is involved in disfellowshipping? We find an object lesson in the way a problem was handled in the first century. A Christian in Corinth engaged in immorality with his father’s wife and did not repent, so Paul directed that he be expelled from that congregation. This had to be done to protect the cleanness of God’s people, for “a little leaven ferments the whole lump.” Expelling him would prevent his wickedness from dishonoring both God and His people. The severe discipline of being disfellowshipped might also shock him to his senses and instill in him and the congregation due fear of God.

The divine command is that if a wicked one is expelled, Christians must “quit mixing in company with (him) , not even eating with such a man.” He thus is cut off from fellowship, including socializing, with loyal ones who respect and want to walk according to God’s law. Some of them might be relatives outside the immediate family, not a part of the same household. It may be hard for those relatives to apply this divine directive, even as it was not easy for Hebrew parents under the Mosaic Law to share in executing a wicked son. Still, God’s command is clear; thus we can be sure that disfellowshipping is just.—1 Corinthians 5:1, 6-8, 11; Titus 3:10, 11; 2 John 9-11

Answer 2

Excommunication is a religious censure which is used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means out of communion, or no longer in communion. In some churches, excommunication includes spiritual condemnation of the subject member or group. Censures and sanctions sometimes follow excommunication such as banishment, shunning or shaming depending on the group's religion, its religious community or, its broader religious community. This article studies excommunication and spiritual condemnation often associated with excommunication, but not the religious censures and sanctions that follow excommunication.

Answer 3

Excommunication is a term usually used by the Catholic church.
Jehovah's Witnesses practice basically the same thing --calling it 'disfellowshipping'-- but not without first trying repeatedly to help the erring one see the need to re-straighten 'his' course ... as explained with live Scripture-links to references in the series of on-line articles:

Discipline That Can Yield Peaceable Fruit :
... Why This Firm Stand?
.... Cut Off Thoroughly?
..... What About Relatives?
...... The Court Decision
....... Discipline--Many Benefit
........ Excommunication--What Effect?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1988/4/15/article_01.htm

Answer 4

A process whereby one's definitive dissension and eventual departure from the essential truths of one's faith essentially and automatically remove oneself from the church communion or fellowship.

So, basically, excommunication necessarily begins with the person oneself who renounces an essential truth of his faith and usually ends up with the public excommunication from the Church's hierarchy in order to warn and defend the faith of the rest of the communion

What has been widely known is that it is the Church who excommunicates. Yes, that is true but its essential effect starts from the person himself.

Answer 5

Litterally that you are excluded from the community.
This word is most often used in the Catholic Church. Yet Protestants have it too, but they call it shunning.

Answer 6

It is a ban put on a person who does something wrong which doesnt allow other people to communicate with them

Answer 7

you have either left or been kick out of a church or religious sect. usually this word pertains to catholic's

Answer 8

when a people is no longer allowed to attend a church or communicate with the church. this is normally in the catholic churches.

Answer 9

denounced from the religion or sect

Answer 10

it means kicked out of the church.