Sentences with phrase «on apostolic succession»
The Catholic Church claims that the authority of the Pope is based on apostolic succession.
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That continuity is rooted in apostolic succession, by which the whole mystery of Christ is handed on through the bishops.
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.
Speaking on Premier's Inspirational Breakfast, she said: «Christ formed the apostolic succession; he didn't appoint a single woman apostle.
Failing to synthesize all the elements of our argument on the nature of apostolic succession, Wahlberg writes that Collins and Walls
The Tractarians regarded this as an assault on the episcopacy and indirectly on the concept of apostolic succession.
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.