Sentences with word «apostolicity»

Read the church government texts of the Pauline corpus, for example, or the concerns of apostolicity in acts.

But they also insisted that apostolicity meant being in communion with the Church's bishops.

We now know not only that none of the Old Testament writings is prophetic witness to Christ in the sense in which the early church assumed them to be, but also that none of the writings of the New Testament is apostolic witness to Christ as the early church itself understood apostolicity.

In that sense, holiness and apostolicity belong together.

But in the second place, the Church's apostolicity tells us that it rests back upon and constantly witnesses to the first and originating moment of its existence.

Above all, apostolicity means that the Christian mission is first of all God's mission, defined as to its character and goals by Jesus Christ, and enabled by the Holy Spirit.

The result of that evolution, Evangelical Catholicism, is an expression of the four enduring marks of Christian ecclesial life — unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity.

The distinguishing feature of the papacy, he writes, is its witness to the apostolicity of the Church.

My own hope is that the whole church would move toward a greater appropriation of its apostolicity, toward «the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood» (Eph.

Each of the three vital aspects of the Christian church's life — theological agreement, episkopé (oversight which holds together both catholicity and apostolicity) and the local congregation where it all comes together — will be central at Baltimore.

Apostolicity, like catholicity, has two senses.

The apostolicity of some at least of the epistles is therefore an important issue.

In its outward form, however, it would be an act by the council of episcopé representing the coming - into - being of a new ecclesial reality possessing the fullness of apostolicity and catholicity.

The Church's catholicity, therefore, is closely linked with her apostolicity.

Sarkissian emphasized that, «the catholic understanding of apostolicity, or, to put it in another way: the apostolic understanding of catholicity makes both these qualities inter-related, inseparable, complementary forms of existence and ways of witness».22

The catholicity of the Church is taken up and carried into her apostolicity, her mission.

But apostolicity is also posited of the Christian Movement over-against the realities of religious isolation, doctrinal purism and ecclesiastical self - preservation.

The claim and call to apostolicity is posited of the church over-against the realities of arbitrariness and rootlessness that have often revealed themselves in Christian history.

Like the other marks, apostolicity, too, can be and has been misappropriated.

In reclaiming this important biblical term, «hospitality,» and linking it with the content that it must have when it is associated with that Name, you have (in my view) correctly interpreted for our context the meaning of «apostolicity.»

... And when, before the formal definition, [the Pope] enumerates the various witnesses to the apostolicity of the doctrine... the Church teaching and the Church taught are put together as one twofold testimony, illustrating each other, and never to be divided.

Most of the writings by early christians did not pass the criteria of apostolicity or were obviously ** even when ** they were considered orthodox or «pertinent» by the proto - orthodox church.

This is not to deny that there is much both in the narratives and in the discourses of the gospel which is historically true, but the element of interpretation is so great that much of the historical value of the gospel depends upon who the author was, and upon his apostolicity or his connection with an apostle.

Blomberg surveys the gnostic gospels, that have gotten so much press over the last decade, and shows how they fail to live up to the criteria of «apostolicity, catholicity, and orthodoxy» (58) that were laid down by the early Church.

Related to both these criteria was that of apostolicity.