apostolicityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /əˌpɒstəˈlɪsɪti/

名詞

apostolicity (usually uncountable, 複数形 apostolicities)

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.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 427:

     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.

関連する語

• apostleship
• apostolate

参照

• Catholic Encyclopaedia