koinonian.

1907 W. P. Du Bose Gospel according to St. Paul xvii. 243 As the first two truths of our faith in Christ might be called those of the Father and the Son, so the third may be designated that of the Spirit. Or, to put it in the other way, as the first two may be called those of the divine love and the divine grace, so the third may be named that of the divine koinonia.

1920 ‘W. S. Palmer’ Christianity & Christ 177 Thinking of the Church I am reminded of the ‘Koinonia’, the fellowship of early Christians which came of the Pentecostal inflowing of the Spirit of God.

1938 Theology XXXVI. 211 The Church's tradition of social and economic justice; the primitive koinonia, the medieval just price and condemnation of usury.

1949 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 2 67 We exist in the Image of the Living God who Himself confronts Himself to become one God in the koinonia of the Holy Spirit.

1967 J. Macquarrie Dict. Christian Ethics 73/1 The point of departure for Christian thinking about ethics is the concrete reality in the world of a community, a koinonia, called into being and action by Jesus of Nazareth.