In my last three posts, I have been going through three of the “notes” of the Church in the creeds: the Church is one, holy, catholic. The last note is the question of apostolicity, and it is central to the challenge not only of the ecumenical movement, but to humanity’s future.
Is a church apostolic because it has bishops in the succession, as opposed to those that do not? Following John Flett, that is not…