Sentences with phrase «earliest apostolic churches»

The celibacy rule is grounded in the words and example of Jesus, Paul, and the earliest apostolic churches.

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God addresses to the Church the question whether it has the courage to undertake an apostolic offensive into such a future and consequently the necessary courage to show itself to the world sincerely, in such a form that no one can have the impression that the Church only exists as a mere survival from earlier times because it has not yet had time to die.

Furthermore, as Pentecostals looked to the Acts of the Apostles in an effort to follow the apostolic patterns of the early church, they noted that converts were baptized in water in «Jesus» name.»

In the early patrisdc period it was common to draw a distinction between the apostolic paradosis (tradition) and the church's didaskalia (teaching).

Robert Funk has observed that in the early Christian church, the apostle's means of exercising power and influence was dependent upon his establishing apostolic parousia in that community.

Adoptionism in this strict sense did not belong to the earliest church, but something closely resembling it appears in the obviously primitive account of the apostolic preaching in Acts: «God hath made this same Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.»

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.

The sufficient evidence of this point in the case of the New Testament writings is that all of them have now been shown to depend on sources, written or oral, earlier than themselves, and hence not to be the original and originating witness that the early church mistook them to be in judging them to be apostolic.

The first step, then, is to remember and embrace the truth that the Church really is what we say she is — one, holy, catholic, apostolic — and that what she has to offer is more beautiful than even the precious early - spring azaleas of north Georgia.

In the early church there seems to have been a distinction between the apostolic or itinerant ministry and the local ministry.

One who affirms a doctrine of apostolic succession culminating in the authority of the bishop of Rome must not only choose between succession of teaching or succession of office (as J. B. Lightfoot in his own day understood), but also surmount the historiographical difficulty posed by the early Church's transition from apostles to presbyters, and from presbyters to a single monarchical bishop.

This is one of the reasons that the early church generally required «apostolic authorship» as a condition for books being accepted into the New Testament (I will write about «Canonization» later).

Thus a return to the tradition of the early church cuts through later accretions and developments, exposing the ways in which they have departed from apostolic intent while at the same time reviving the current practice of worship through the rediscovery of the apostolic intent preserved by the Fathers.

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.

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.

So many of the earliest so - called Christian churches had different rites and beliefs; were led by bishops, patriarchs, or popes — not all under, what has become, the apostolic succession of the bishop of Rome.

Why do you think of the apostolic age or the early church as being different than what came much later, or, as stated, you seem to presuppose that there was a period of «revealed relgion», then the gates were shut?

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.»

The proximity was recognized in the early Church by those who treated the writings of the Apostolic Fathers as scripture or called their authors «apostolic men» (apostolici).