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

But for those of us for whom the New Testament is not merely a record of the past but a challenge to the present, it is occasionally worth asking ourselves whether the distance separating the Christianity of the apostolic age from the far more comfortable Christianities of later centuries — and especially those of the developed world today — is more than one merely of time and circumstance.

From New York Times

The use of the term heresy in the New Testament cannot be regarded as defining the attitude of the Christian Church, even in the Apostolic age, towards errors in belief.

From Project Gutenberg

This antagonism is explicable by the character of the heresies that threatened the Christian Church in the Apostolic age.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg