I want to know the answer to the following question:
What is the term for how the church as a whole works?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Though the reformers were concerned with ecclesiology (the doctrine of how the church as a body works), they had a different understanding of the process in which truths in scripture were applied to life of believers, compared to the Catholics' idea that certain people within the church, or ideas that were old enough, had a special status in giving understanding of the text.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: yes