Crossword-Solution: APOSTOLICITY 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

There are three tests of the true Church: _first_, apostolicity, or the divine origin of the Church and its succession of apostles; _second_, catholicity, or the truth in matters of instruction and life communicated through the succession of the apostles, the truth in matters of faith and life as interpreted by Scripture and tradition; and, _third_, autonomy, or the absolute independence and supreme authority of the Church in faith and practice.

Here also the principle of apostolicity seems to have been of great importance for the collectors and editors, but it was otherwise applied than at Rome.

Accordingly, so far as we know, its reception into the canon has no preliminary history.] [Footnote 94: People were compelled by internal and external evidence (recognition of their apostolicity; example of the Gnostics) to accept the epistles of Paul.

This notion preserved the unique personal importance of the Apostles, guaranteed the apostolicity, that is, the truth of the Church's faith, and formed a dogmatic justification for the authority already attained by the bishops.

That work, I believe, I have not read since I published it, and I doubt not at all that I have made many mistakes in it;--partly, from my ignorance of the details of doctrine, as the Church of Rome holds them, but partly from my impatience to clear as large a range for the _principle_ of doctrinal development (waiving the question of historical _fact_) as was consistent with the strict apostolicity and identity of the Catholic Creed.