English Dictionary

apostolicity

IPA（発音記号）

/əˌpɒstəˈlɪsɪti/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常

(Christianity) The quality of being apostolic, notably of preserving authenticity within the mission and tradition of the Christian church as founded by Jesus Christ and his twelve original Apostles, through their representatives and successors in the papacy and episcopate.

日本語の意味

使徒的性、すなわちイエス・キリストと彼の十二使徒によって確立されたキリスト教会の伝統と使命の真正性を保持する性質。

Scholars argued that the council's decrees were vital to maintaining the church's apostolicity in an age of rapid doctrinal change.

学者たちは、公会議の決定が急速な教義変化の時代に教会の使徒性を維持するうえで不可欠だと主張した。

意味（1）

(Christianity) The quality of being apostolic, notably of preserving authenticity within the mission and tradition of the Christian church as founded by Jesus Christ and his twelve original Apostles, through their representatives and successors in the papacy and episcopate.

his Church did its best to trump Rome in apostolicity by declaring that it had been founded by the first-recruited among Christ's Apostles, Andrew.

apostolicities （ plural ）