Sentences with phrase «apostolic tradition»

It is built on centuries of apostolic tradition passed down from age to age in the fullness of Christ.

Tal, nice rhetoric, but they ratified what was currently viewed as having been passed down by apostolic tradition.

Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy in evangelical faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether in the realm of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop of the sixteenth century, but rather in the light of the broader apostolic tradition.

years of catholic and apostolic tradition dating from Christ himself.

It accounts for the development of the earliest form of apostolic traditions and apostolic succession among the early Church Fathers, particularly in Irenaeus» Against Heresies.

The more I have studied it and it's history, the more I believe that (if anyone) the Catholics probably have it right and the apostolic traditions are superior to the concept of sola scriptura.

It was, above all else, to the purity of the apostolic tradition that Luther wished to return.

In 189 AD, assertion of the primacy of the Church of Rome may be indicated in Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies (3:3:2): «With [the Church of Rome], because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.»

First, with the passage of time the apostolic tradition, which had been the sum and substance of (the Apostles») teaching on the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, became broadened to include extra-biblical, oral teaching which was supposed to have come from the Apostles.

The pope's primary function is to preserve the apostolic tradition, ensuring that it is transmitted from age to age without deformation or deviation.

After that he had no direct contact with the primitive Church for fourteen years, that is to say, almost down to the period to which our epistles belong, and it is difficult to see how he could during this time have had any opportunity of further instruction in the apostolic traditions.

Methodists have said «the LDS Church is not a part of the historic, apostolic tradition of the Christian faith.»

This does not of course assume that there are, in the apostolic tradition, clear and commanding directives concerning the form and content of public worship; it affirms, rather, that ways of worship which ignore or distort the liberating message of God's Christly action must be corrected from that central action.

I believe, however, that those of us who find ourselves in that camp have a responsibility that we have not yet adequately discharged: namely, to demonstrate that our disposition is based, not on purely personal liberality or the various ideologies of tolerance, but on theological grounds evoked by scripture and apostolic tradition.

There are some churches (and people such as yourself) who I respect for seeking to follow the apostolic tradition.

It is for practical reasons and not only theological ones that he stresses the importance for ecumenism of the Life and Work programs for justice, peace and the integrity of creation (as well as, to mention other topics of importance to him and his audience, the «celebration of diversity» and the need for an «ecumenical hermeneutic» to satisfy doubters that there is such a thing as the «apostolic tradition» to which ecumenism must be faithful).

Ecumenism is now in the hands of the evangelical and Pentecostal movement on the one hand and the Roman Catholic and Orthodox on the other, the polar opposites of the mainline folks, yet there is a measure of agreement on where and how the apostolic tradition is to be located and retrieved in the affirmations regarding the Trinity, or that Jesus Christ is true god and true man.

It is among evangelicals, Pentecostals, Roman Catholics and the Orthodox, polar opposites though they seem, that there is a measure of agreement on where and how the apostolic tradition is to be located and retrieved.

A profoundly hostile secular culture wars against our efforts to achieve even a modest loyalty to the apostolic tradition, and, sadly, in the war we see the Church as a sometimes - unreliable ally.

He created an alliance between individual and the apostolic tradition against present hierarchy with far reaching results.

The apostolic tradition in the word, table, prayers, hymns, benedictions, doxologies, and the like, as that content which proclaims both the Christ event and the relationship which the church sustains to God.

In conclusion, the importance of early Christian worship for worship renewal today is in direct relationship to the degree in which the early church remained faithful to the apostolic tradition preserved in Scripture.

If we think in terms of a series of concentric circles, the apostolic traditions must be central.

However, I would join those who argue that the ancient church, being in such close historical, geographical, linguistic, and conceptual proximity to the New Testament era and to its parent religion, Judaism, is characterized by a sustained attempt to remain faithful to the apostolic tradition.

Thus, I'm opposed to theologians who advocate Gaia worship (which, for the uninitiated, means substituting feminist ideology for the apostolic tradition as the touchstone of Christian orthodoxy), but I don't think there's the remotest need to worry that they'll have any influence over the future of Christianity.

11), free from pride and covetousness, discreet, responsible, trained in and loyal to the apostolic tradition, competent to teach, true officiants of the church's worship.