Talk:Apostolic Age

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[edit] The age of apostolic deposit

As far as I can tell, this term or "Apostolic Era" is rarely used in the sense of Catholic and Orthodox apologetics, to refer to the entire period between Christ's comings (as this article uses it). It is used by Catholics as the Protestants also use it, to describe the period of time during which the Apostolic deposit was left once for all, to the Church.

The Catholic apologetic is not that we live now in the age of the apostles, the apostolic era, but that there is a line of succession, of trusteeship, that extends back from the present continuously all the way to the Apostolic age - and that therefore their church has preserved by the Holy Spirit the fullness of Apostolic authority. That is substantially different from what this article says, and therefore I've marked it with a disputed tag. — Mark (Mkmcconn) ** 01:51, 27 November 2007 (UTC)