Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Saint Peter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the apostle Peter or his doctrines or writings: as, the Petrine epistles. See Petrinism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to St. Peter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter or Peter the Great.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin Petrus, Saint Peter + –ine.]

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Examples

  • As I implied in an earlier post, the ordained represent one pole of a spiritual polarity in the Church, the "Petrine" charism, of which the other pole is the "Marian" charism of "receptivity to God, submissive fidelity to Jesus Christ, and fruitfulness in bearing him into the world."

    Archive 2005-07-01 Mike L 2005

  • As I implied in an earlier post, the ordained represent one pole of a spiritual polarity in the Church, the "Petrine" charism, of which the other pole is the "Marian" charism of "receptivity to God, submissive fidelity to Jesus Christ, and fruitfulness in bearing him into the world."

    Is the threat real, and what is at stake? Mike L 2005

  • A liturgy was also used, and, from surviving fragments, it appears to have been related to the 'Ephesine,' rather than to the 'Petrine' family of liturgies -- that is to say, it was different from the Roman, and if not identical with the Gallican liturgy, was similar to it.

    Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

  • A key question for Catholics and Protestants will be to explore the resources of genuine apostolic and human authority and how reform of any arbitrary use of authority in the Church is overcome without severing the unity of the apostolic mission of the Church and without rejecting the Petrine ministry of the successors of Peter.

    Fr. Robert Barron on Protestantism, authority, and Cardinal Newman 2009

  • A key question for Catholics and Protestants will be to explore the resources of genuine apostolic and human authority and how reform of any arbitrary use of authority in the Church is overcome without severing the unity of the apostolic mission of the Church and without rejecting the Petrine ministry of the successors of Peter.

    Dissent and Heresy 2009

  • You claim not to support the Petrine claim to primacy, so You ain't Catholic, but if you go back before the Petrine thingie, you are in a very gray area.

    Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

  • After Christianity was legalized, some within the church tried a power-grab by claiming the Petrine doctrine gave them the power as mediators to God.

    Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

  • Over and above that, the wider dialogue of theologians with the bishops, as well as between bishops and the Petrine office in the Church, has found a voice.

    New Releases 2009

  • A sacerdotal act of the Pope – the removal of the excommunication of four bishops who had been consecrated contrary to the prohibition of his predecessor in the Petrine office – encounters an outraged lack of understanding not only of the non-Catholic public but also of many Catholics and even bishops, who have openly renounced their loyalty to the pope.

    Mosebach on Why the Pope Had to Do What He Did 2009

  • A key question for Catholics and Protestants will be to explore the resources of genuine apostolic and human authority and how reform of any arbitrary use of authority in the Church is overcome without severing the unity of the apostolic mission of the Church and without rejecting the Petrine ministry of the successors of Peter.

    History 2009

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