apostolic age

American  

noun

1. the earliest period of Christianity, lasting through the death of the last apostle.

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Etymology

Origin of apostolic age

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

As best we can tell, local churches in the Roman world of the apostolic age were essentially small communes, self-sustaining but also able to share resources with one another when need dictated.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2017

Such was the catholicism of the apostolic age.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

How does this comport with the assumption that the existence of the human Jesus was never doubted in the apostolic age?

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.

De Rossi unhesitatingly says that he believes this painting of our Blessed Lady to belong almost to the apostolic age.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Herodians, he-rō′di-ans, n.pl. a political rather than religious party among the Jews of the apostolic age, adherents of the family of Herod.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various