apostolic
adjective
of or characteristic of an apostle.
apostolicity
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a word derived from
apostolic.
Example Sentences
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Even those of larger content, such as Hebrews and Revelation, if their apostolicity was questioned, remained subjects of dispute.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
And next, as to the issue, to which the controversy between them was to be brought, it was this:—the Anglican disputant took his stand upon Antiquity or apostolicity, the Roman upon Catholicity.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
She has been distinguished in every age, for the unity of her faith, and the sanctity of her doctrine, for the universality of her extent, and the apostolicity of her origin.
From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Nicholas Rigby
This second authority, however, is not appealed to without the support of apostolicity.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
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.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
