Sentences with phrase «of apostolicity»

Related to both these criteria was that of apostolicity.

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.

These three Pauline themes are closely interwoven — authority of apostolicity, equality of faith, and servant ministry.

Given what historians and exegetes now generally take for granted about the composition of the New Testament, the distinction between «Scripture» and «tradition» breaks down; and one is forced to decide either for a traditional New Testament canon that one can no longer justify by the early church's own criterion of apostolicity or else for this same criterion of canonicity that now allows one to justify only a nontraditional canon.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Among theological issues most deeply engaging me in the past year are sin in believers, the virginal conception of the Lord, providence in history, prevenient grace, the holiness, catholicity and apostolicity of the one church, radical judgment at the end of history and the rejection of sin by atoning grace.

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

At the conference, D.G. Moses, an ecumenical leader from India, pointed out that the mission and unity, the apostolicity and catholicity of the church were two aspects of one single entity, like the two sides of a coin.

The church's unity and apostolicity rest upon the whole redemptive work of Christ - past, present and future; upon His finished work on the cross, His continuing work as the risen Lord, and upon His promise that He will come again.

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 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.

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.

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.