Sentences with phrase «of apostolic succession»

The Tractarians regarded this as an assault on the episcopacy and indirectly on the concept of apostolic succession.

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.

Since the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic magisterium has deployed its self - referential doctrine of apostolic succession to portray Protestants as little more than heretics.

Bringing forth only fragments of our extended critique of apostolic succession (and acting as if it constituted the whole), Wahlberg fails to realize both the nature and the extent of our criticism.

Failing to synthesize all the elements of our argument on the nature of apostolic succession, Wahlberg writes that Collins and Walls

As I showed in my review, no appeal to consensus can achieve the aim that Collins and Walls have in mind, because there was broad consensus for at least a thousand years about the existence of an apostolic succession in the episcopate — a doctrine that the authors consider themselves free to reject.

reject the idea of apostolic succession in the episcopate.

But there is no idea here of apostolic succession from Peter to the Pope.

We have our bishops and moderators and princes (or princesses) of the pulpit, but we have very little sense of or appreciation for the importance of apostolic succession.

In a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incredible.

Not exact matches

In the U.S. today there are dozens of lines of «apostolic succession» in which eccentric leaders with magnificent titles preside over tiny «Catholic» congregations in which almost everybody is a putative priest or bishop.

The link between western Christianity and the gospel was broken when the churches formed the doctrines of the divine investiture of kings and apostolic succession without reference to the rights of those who were not kings or apostles.

Yet even many so - called «Protestant» churches and denominations have their fair share of problems even without apostolic succession.

That continuity is rooted in apostolic succession, by which the whole mystery of Christ is handed on through the bishops.

The Catholic Church claims that the authority of the Pope is based on apostolic succession.

It is the religion of reason, intelligence, and apostolic succession.

How one gets to «apostolic succession» from the supposed quotation referring to Peter is an example of the miraculous.

It is misappropriated by those who are quick to claim «apostolic succession» but slow about discerning the faithfulness of clerical systems based on such claims to the «apostolic teaching» that it was devised to safeguard.

Oddly, when Evangelicals say I'm not orthodox, they have to realize that Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox might say the same about them, since apostolic succession and the primacy of the bishops aren't small matters in those traditions.

William Nye, the Church of England's most senior civil servant, told The Times bishops felt this was a «bearable anomaly» but others would be «concerned» that the proposal would break the «continuous apostolic succession» that Anglican members believe links their clergy and bishops to the original followers of Jesus Christ.

This does not mean that (for example) the Protestant denials of real presence or transubstantiation are now compatible with orthodoxy, or that the need to «cite apostolic succession» in relation to heterodox communities has ceased.

In the hands of Rome, then, apostolic succession functions as a self - justifying and ever - dividing myth.

For, most confusingly, his John Knox persona suddenly turns into the reincarnation of Bishop Thomas Crammer, when, not forty pages later, he starts defending the hierarchy, albeit of the Anglican variety: «Pope Benedict XVI,» Wills sneers, «when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, wrote in 1998 that it is an infallible teaching of the church that Anglican bishops and priests are fake bishops and priests, dispensing fake sacraments, because they are outside the apostolic succession.»

There were questions about the papacy and apostolic succession, about sin and grace, about the authority of Scripture and tradition.

And, more than half a millennium later, when Paul came to Corinth to preach the gospel, the city was famous for its great temple of Aphrodite, with its battalions of «hierodules» who, we might say, stood in a valid «apostolic succession» to the kedeshot of Jeremiah's time.

Some Anglicans have made much of the importance of the «apostolic succession».

This is a consistency guaranteed by the Lord himself: both in the unity of his Person and in the unity of his gift of inerrancy to the Church through the apostolic succession.

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.

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.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

In the West, whose apostolic see could claim the sanction of both the prince and the prophet among the apostles, the tendency was rather to stress (in the tradition of Clement of Rome, of Callistus, of Tertullian, of Cyprian, of Ambrose, and of Augustine) the Covenantal sanctions of the ministry in succession both to the apostles and to the Old Testament prophets and priests.

It was two outside churchmen who made the apostolic claim for the teaching authority of the see in Rome, namely: the Syrian Hegesippus, who was concerned to ascertain the true apostolic doctrine as it was preserved in the episcopal succession, notably in Rome up to Eleutherus (174 - 89); and especially the presbyter and later bishop of Lyons, Irenaeus (d. 177 or 8).

The authority of the sacerdos is derived by apostolic succession from the incarnate Christ; the authority of the episcopal propheta stems from the eternal Christ.

He provides us with a kind of scholarly apostolic succession which began in 1968 with him listening with one or two others to John Mason's lectures in the chapter house of Oxford cathedral.