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What is "apostolic" witness?

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Unless I'm mistaken, what I have here worked out is simply what "apostolicity" has always been taken to mean – or, better, what "apostolicity" has, in fact, always meant, given the methods and knowledge then and there obtaining. That has been understood to be "apostolic" which: (1) preaches Christ; and (2) does so originally and originatingly, constitutively, and hence is the earliest preaching. But, of course, what preaching is taken to be earliest is a function of the methods of determining such things available in the situation, so that "original," "earliest," etc. always express a necessary relativity to such methods and the knowledge they make possible.

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