post-apostolic

And so, to reach the conclusion I profess, one must rely on the premise that the post-apostolic Church-as-receiver of the canon has the same degree of teaching authority that the apostolic Church-as-author of the canon had and has.

Archive 2007-10-01 Mike L 2007

And so, to reach the conclusion I profess, one must rely on the premise that the post-apostolic Church-as-receiver of the canon has the same degree of teaching authority that the apostolic Church-as-author of the canon had and has.

PMS II: Siris on Carson-and-me-vs-Witt Mike L 2007

I know that Bill, for instance, tends to think, or, at least, has indicated something like this in various contexts, that the sort of account that Mike offers involves an equivocation on the term 'Church', a failure to distinguish between the Church insofar as it wrote the Scripture (and thus insofar as it was apostolic) and the Church insofar as it accepts them submissively as canon (and thus insofar as it is post-apostolic).

PMS II: Siris on Carson-and-me-vs-Witt Mike L 2007

Such a distinction between the "apostolic" and the "post-apostolic" Church does indeed obtain, if only as a matter of chronology.

PMS II: Siris on Carson-and-me-vs-Witt Mike L 2007

Such a distinction between the "apostolic" and the "post-apostolic" Church does indeed obtain, if only as a matter of chronology.

Archive 2007-10-01 Mike L 2007

I know that Bill, for instance, tends to think, or, at least, has indicated something like this in various contexts, that the sort of account that Mike offers involves an equivocation on the term 'Church', a failure to distinguish between the Church insofar as it wrote the Scripture (and thus insofar as it was apostolic) and the Church insofar as it accepts them submissively as canon (and thus insofar as it is post-apostolic).

Archive 2007-10-01 Mike L 2007

My complaint is that they masquerade as a Christian house when they aren't, and that they choose post-apostolic documents that really have no relationship to Christianity to define what a Christian is.

Michael Hyatt, CEO at Nelson, responds Miss Snark 2006

In the post-apostolic writings, "enlightenment" came to be a technical term for baptism.

Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973

The questions discussed in those days, both in apostolic and post-apostolic times, were eminently practical; but they were not a whit more so than the questions of Predestination,

The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace

The spirit of color-caste is a post-apostolic devil.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 Various