apostolic succession
apostolic succession see apostolic succession .
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Debate over role of 'bishop' in apostolic succession is a church-dividing issue.(COLUMNS)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 9/19/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...church of today in "apostolic succession" with the church of...mechanistic notion of apostolic succession, what some...doctrine of apostolic succession, as is the Eucharist...Sullivan points out, "apostolic succession in the episcopate...
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Apostolic succession.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 10/17/2008; ; 619 words
; ...Richard McBrien's column on apostolic succession (NCR, Sept. 19) was helpful...McBrien questions whether the apostolic ministerial succession by ordination...the New Testament and the early apostolic and post-apostolic tradition...
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How can we think about those ordinations on boats? Consider the worship community and apostolic succession.(FAITH & SPIRITUALITY)
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times; 2/12/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...seem to depend on a tendentious theory of apostolic succession. The validity of apostolic succession thus conferred through marginal...historical church which claims to base itself on apostolic succession (such as the Anglican Church...
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Apostolic succession is context of 'true church'.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/18/2007; 363 words
; ...of the Sept. 6 letter, "Reader glad he's not part of 'true church,' " make the claim that his church has apostolic succession? Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches can. Other churches started because of dissatisfaction with the Roman Catholic...
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Cardwell, Haldane, Hore-Belisha--an apostolic succession?
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Pownall. Both contemporaries and subsequent historians have taken Hore-Belisha seriously as a reformer, and even as a true `apostolic successor' to Cardwell and Haldane, his great Liberal predecessors. In particular, steps taken to improve the status and...
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Bishops have apostolic succession from St Peter, but Lord Runcie has chosen a different disciple
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; Archbishop Runcie is an impressive figure. At parties -- which he enjoys - he comes across not only as witty and clever, but as one who has had authority. He had a good war, serving in the greatest of all regiments, the Scots Guards, and winning not only an MC but the esteem of his brother
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The Apostolic Fathers: An Essential Guide.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...thematic introduction to the Apostolic Fathers for university or seminary...which the later understanding of apostolic succession was based so heavily on an interpretation...service to the cause of making the Apostolic Fathers better known and appreciated...
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Catholic women's ordination: the ecumenical implications of women deacons in the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Orthodox Church of Greece, and the Union of Utrecht Old Catholic Churches *.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Catholic Church--the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Orthodox Church...regarding them. The Armenian Apostolic Church has an unbroken tradition...recent to join churches whose apostolic succession is recognized by the Catholic...
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 "Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)")
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Fight to lead church reaches federal court: an arbitrator's ruling that leaders of the Phila. denomination took over illegally is being appealed.(Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith)
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA); 5/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Philadelphia's Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, its considerable assets, and a flock...shall marry your own cousins." He laid out succession plans in his 1977 "Apostolic Epistle," deciding that an elder -- Roddy...
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Leadership Succession in the World of the Pauline Circle
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Leadership Succession in the World of the Pauline...us about the issue of apostolic succession. Stepp does...development of the idea of apostolic succession for church...Reformers' protest against apostolic succession, and recent...
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apostolic succession
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
apostolic succession in Christian theology, the doctrine asserting...administration of sacraments. Essential to maintaining the apostolic succession is the right consecration of bishops. Apostolic succession is to be distinguished from the Petrine...
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succession, apostolic
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
succession, apostolic. See APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION .
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Apostolic Succession
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Apostolic Succession. A belief in Christianity that the authority of the ordained ministry, in word and sacrament , is protected by the continuous transmission of that authority through successive ordinations by those who were themselves validly ordained.
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apostolic
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
apostolic Apostolic Fathers the Christian leaders of the early Church immediately succeeding the Apostles. apostolic succession (in Christian thought) the uninterrupted transmission of spiritual...
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Armenian Apostolic Church
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH The Armenian Apostolic Church has a long and ancient...received tradition remembers the apostolic preaching of Saint Bartholomew...played a significant role in the succession of Muslim empires in which its...
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