Sentences with phrase «with apostolic succession»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.