The phrase "apostolic times" refers to the period in early Christianity when the apostles of Jesus, such as Peter, Paul, and John, were alive and actively preaching and spreading the teachings of Jesus. Full definition
It began to develop in apostolic times and entered the Church's consciousness only slowly in the process of doctrinal development. (religion-online.org)
I would emphasize, if anything even more strongly than Niebuhr, the empirical church, the communion of the saints that has come down in unbroken continuity from apostolic times, so that we see the resurrection through the eyes of the disciples, because they and all the intervening generations are still present to us. (religion-online.org)
Luiz Ruscillo FAITH Magazine January - February 2007 Christ the Fulfilment of Wisdom «The Church, as early as apostolic times, and then constantly inher Tradition, has illuminated the unity of the divine plan in the twoTestaments through typology, which discerns in God's works of the OldCovenant prefigurations of what he accomplished in the fullness of timein the person of his incarnate son.» (faith.org.uk)