Sentences with phrase «apostolic authority»

There is also the indication that there were many different factions in the church and that these factions competed for apostolic authority.

In opposition to this decision stand the false brothers who do not have apostolic authority based on the truth of the gospel, and would not grant equality to the Gentile believers.

It is the catechists job to respond to that type of question, as patiently and painstakingly as is necessary — for instance to explain apostolic authority, that Christ gives his authority to the Church.

The gospel may have been written by a disciple of the disciple John; it may have been written by the other John the elder, who was perhaps some kind of follower of the disciple John; or it may have been written by an unknown teacher of Ephesus who himself felt that he possessed a strong apostolic authority.

Just moments before the start of the beatification Mass, when for the first time a Pope would exercise his solemn apostolic authority on British soil, our establishment panel, live on air, effectively held it up to ridicule.

Christians have always affirmed apostolic authority; it's not our place to wag the finger at Paul, telling him to sit up and take notice.

Similarly, when the Corinthians demand a proof of his apostolic authority, he solemnly warns them: «Christ is not weak, but is powerful in you: for he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth in the power of God.

And by scripture I mean the apostolic authority of Peter, Paul et al..

It does not diminish but enhances the apostolic authority and dignity of the episcopal office when it is exercised in a relationship of trust and cooperation with the faithful» and the overwhelming majority of Catholics do want to understand themselves as the faithful.

Therefore Paul is not seeking to invoke apostolic authority by appealing to Jerusalem; he has already established that he speaks with apostolic authority himself.

They can trust that in heeding Paul's apostolic authority, they are also in accord with the authority of the Jerusalem apostles.

The circumcision - free gospel and apostolic authority both come from God, not from any human standing.

The resurrection appearances confirmed this conviction, to be sure, but these visions may have been originally understood as grants of apostolic authority to their recipients, as fuller manifestations of the risen Christ bestowed upon the privileged few chosen to be their leaders.

Thus, insights into worship provided by the Didache, Justin, Tertulhan, Hippolytus, and others are rooted in apostolic authority.

The description of worship by the early Church Fathers is authoritative insofar as it remains faithful to the apostolic authority preserved in the Scripture.

The leader was Barnabas, not Paul, and the impetus for the work of evangelization came from the apostolic authorities in Jerusalem, not from Paul's own initiative.

But the recognition of such facts as these must not obscure Paul's sense of apostolic authority: «God has appointed in the church first apostles.»