apostolicity

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For Brown there are three areas of common conviction among NT authors as including continuity with Israel, apostolicity, and baptism / eucharist.

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  1. The quality of being apostolic; one of the four qualities of the true church as given in the Constantinopolitan Creed, a. d. 381, namely, unity, sanctity, catholicity, apostolicity.

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  • A further strand acknowledges the 'dynamic nature of tradition', and develops the notion of apostolicity in an eschatological direction, where it becomes more important to consider the church's apostolic witness not just in terms of historical perspective but as a sign of a redeemed creation. —  Stand Firm
  • For Brown there are three areas of common conviction among NT authors as including continuity with Israel, apostolicity, and baptism / eucharist. —  Euangelion
  • (Missio Dei), and for an exploration of the ecumenical implications this has for the unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity of the Church. —  Paradoxology
  • The principle of apostolicity was more strictly conceived and more surely applied. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
  • This notion preserved the unique personal importance of the Apostles, guaranteed the apostolicity, that is, the truth of the Church's faith, and formed a dogmatic justification for the authority already attained by the bishops. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
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  1. from apostolic + -ity; formed like publicity, catholicity, etc.
 

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