apostolicity

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• Apostolicity will also have to recognize the pluralistic character of the church in the New Testament and the variety of different agencies that emerged in the earliest church for ensuring fidelity to tradition.

  Academic text (2009)

• The concept of apostolicity emphasizes the importance of teachings that trace back to the apostles.

• No other institution, person, or group can claim apostolicity other than these two: the Vatican or Orthodoxy.

  Blog text (4)

• BEM's "Ministry," no. 34, is cited for its many-stranded description of apostolicity in the Church.

  Academic text (2013)

• How does communion interpret the oneness, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity of the church?

  Academic text (2015)

• As a church historian, I was convinced that the document needed to speak to many of the ancient issues regarding such things as the historic marks of the church: its unity, holiness, apostolicity, and catholicity.

  Academic text (2015)

• Only within the apostolicity of the entire Church, Congar insisted, can "'apostolic succession' in the strict sense of the term, in other words, the succession of the bishops" take place.

  Academic text (2001)

• A more irenic approach might be mediated through the so-called Nicene marks of unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity as noted in part 1.

  Academic text (2009)

• It amounts to a simple and positive assertion of an important element of Catholic faith: Catholic bishops are ordained in apostolic succession, and the sacrament of confirmation is the ordinary means for baptized men and women to participate in the apostolicity of the Church.

  Academic text (2002)

• Understanding apostolicity helps believers connect their faith to the foundational teachings of the apostles.

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