Sentences with phrase «of apostolic tradition»

Moreover, it has almost changed its nature today because in human life it has widened so enormously, whereas the Church, being simply the teacher of the universal natural law and of apostolic tradition, can not do more than proclaim general principles.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Such development of doctrine, typically in response to grave error and deviant traditions built upon such error, is to be understood not as an addition to the apostolic teaching contained in Holy Scripture but as Spirit - guided insight into the fullness of that teaching.

As an example of qualitative style arguments, in the First Epistle to Timothy the task of preserving the tradition is entrusted to ordained presbyters; the clear sense of presbuteros as an indication of an office, is a sense that to these scholars seems alien to Paul and the apostolic generation.

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.

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.»

In the light of this confirmation of the tradition it does seem highly plausible, as the studies by Stickler, Cholij and Cochini maintain, that the apostles would have practised continence even if it were not a universal requirement in the «apostolic age» and beyond.

We speak of the «deposit of faith» which is found in Scripture as authoritatively interpreted in the apostolic tradition under the promised guidance of the Holy Spirit.

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.

While students of ecclesiology will recognize in these perspectives an unflagging congregationalism, Volf is sensitive to areas in which the free church tradition is especially vulnerable: the unity within the Christian communities; the bonds that connect one congregation to others; the accountability of congregations and clergy; and the ever - present threat to neglect or abandon the apostolic tradition.

Not everything that a congregation embraces is tried before the jury of the «apostolic tradition.»

«Openness to all other churches is a formal identifying feature of catholicity, and to this feature we must add loyalty to the apostolic tradition.»

He further says that the East Syrian church was under the ecclesiastical control of Antioch and the whole story of Thomas's work in the East is a fabrication by Edessa to assert its independence of Antioch and also to prove its orthodoxy in faith, Hence Brown rejected the East Syrian tradition concerning the apostolic activity of Thomas in India.

Similar to the Indian tradition, the East Syrian church holds a strong tradition of the apostolic activity of St. Thomas in India.

The Indian tradition of its apostolic foundation is much stronger than that of Rome or Alexandria or Constantinople.

This coincidence between the apostolic Preaching as attested by the speeches in Acts, and as attested by Paul, enables us to carry back its essential elements to a date far earlier than a critical analysis of Acts by itself could justify; for, as we have seen, Paul must have received the tradition very soon after the death of Jesus.

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.

His historical study had convinced him that the most faithful bearer of the apostolic faith was the great tradition of thought and practice as expounded by the orthodox Church Fathers.»

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.

Furthermore, the Christian community exists in the contemporary world in which Christian people have their own specific experience and grasp of what this tradition, grounded in the apostolic witness to the originating event, can mean to them.

What can be done, however, is to refer to the early apostolic witness, seen in the context of the living Christian tradition, and to the manner in which that witness stressed both the centrality of the figure of Jesus and the enormous impact he had made.

Everything that we «know» about Jesus comes to us through the apostolic witness, as this has been handed down in the living tradition of the Christian community of faith, worship, and life.

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.

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

Hence the background against which we must study the Gospel of Mark is twofold: the evangelic tradition, which we considered in the preceding chapter, and the apostolic faith and its formulation in preaching, which we are considering in the present one.

As a transcript of a living community tradition, the Gospel of Mark relies not only upon the early passion narrative and the oral records of Jesus» life and teachings, some of which may already have been gathered into little collections, sequences, groups of sayings; it relies also upon the apostolic experience which supplemented and interpreted those traditions.

It is this difference in theological outlook, according to Lohmeyer, which explains the alternation of Galilee and Jerusalem as the scene of the appearances of Jesus after his resurrection; and the probability is now enhanced and supported by his study of the traditions relating to the two centers in the apostolic church.

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.

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.

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.

According to tradition, he founded a sect of his own as a rival to apostolic Christianity.

My own approach has been to dig deeply into the core of my own tradition and to find there surprising convergences with other Christians drawn from the great heritage of the apostolic faith and the inspired Holy Scriptures we cherish in common.

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.»

In this book the author «presents and comments on substantial excerpts from the major sources of the Church's Tradition extending all the way back to apostolic times».

This distinction is an important one, as the former type of theory reduces the status of the final author of a gospel almost to that of an editor writing at a late period when trustworthy oral traditions were comparatively scarce; the latter type of theory assumes the existence of smaller, but earlier and more valuable written sources, some of which may even be apostolic, which have been combined with considerable oral tradition, of varying historical value, by the final author.

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.

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.

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.

years of catholic and apostolic tradition dating from Christ himself.