On June 28, the church celebrates the feast day of St. Irenaeus of Lyon, the most recently declared doctor of the church.

How does one know where to stand? As a Christian, how do you know? What church or denomination should you join, what teaching ...

Christ is the source and guarantor of apostolic teaching. Therefore, every gathering of faithful Christians possesses to some degree the four notes of the church, however imperfectly.” ...

What is more, nowhere do we find any suggestion that Paul and the other apostles disagreed about their basic teaching; rather, their essential unity is asserted (cf. 1 Cor. 15:11).

The household of God, says Paul, is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets (Eph. 2:20), and, as E. A. Litton has observed, a foundation does ...

A: “Apostolic” refers to the apostles, the earliest followers of Jesus who were sent out to spread the Christian faith. In this case, it comes from Apostolic Pentecostals’ beliefs about baptism.

These were seen as distinguishable from the plurality of writings circulating among the churches that used the names of apostles — such as the Gospel of Peter, the Acts of Peter and the ...

As the church summarizes what her life of prayer looks like, she turns to the Acts of the Apostles and describes the place of the apostolic teaching, holy fellowship, the Breaking of the Bread ...

Christ is the source and guarantor of apostolic teaching. Therefore, every gathering of faithful Christians possesses to some degree the four notes of the church, however imperfectly.” ...