The Acts of the Apostles (, Práxeis tōn Apostólōn ; ), usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament ; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age.

Acts tells the story of the Apostolic Age of the Early Christian church, with particular emphasis on the ministry of the Twelve Apostles and of Paul of Tarsus.

* A. C. McGiffert, History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age.

Since the Apostolic Age, the use of the definite article before the word Christ and its development into a proper name signifies its identification with Jesus as the promised Jewish messiah.

A major component of the Christology of the Apostolic Age was that of Paul the Apostle.

Following the Apostolic Age, there was fierce and often politicized debate in the early church on many interrelated issues.

No writings were left by Jesus, and the study of the various Christologies of the Apostolic Age is based on early Christian documents.

A foremost contribution to the Christology of the Apostolic Age is that of Paul.

In the 290s, Eusebius began work on his magnum opus, the Ecclesiastical History, a narrative history of the Church and Christian community from the Apostolic Age to Eusebius ' own time.

Because of their commitment to biblical authority, spiritual gifts, and the miraculous, Pentecostals tend to see their movement as reflecting the same kind of spiritual power and teachings that were found in the Apostolic Age of the early church.

It celebrates the sending of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles, which traditionally marks the birth of the Church, see also Apostolic Age.

The Jesus Seminar considers the New Testament accounts of Jesus ' ascension as inventions of the Christian community in the Apostolic Age.

The earliest Christian period of biblical interpretation is the Apostolic Age.

There is also a relative paucity of available material and this period is less studied than the preceding Apostolic Age and historical ages following it.

Like many groups, Jehovah's Witnesses strive to reflect Christianity as they believe it was practiced in the 1st century, the Apostolic Age.

The historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles, the primary source for the Apostolic Age, is a major issue for biblical scholars and historians of Early Christianity.

The Clementine literature had its first origin in the Apostolic Age, and belonged to the original Jewish, Petrine, legal Church.

In 1845 he was appointed select preacher, and published in 1847 a volume of Sermons and Essays on the Apostolic Age, which not only laid the foundation of his fame as a preacher, but also marked his future position as a theologian.

Elements of the primitive Christianity movement reject the patristic tradition of the prolific extrabiblical 2nd-and 3rd-century redaction of this knowledge ( the Ante-Nicene Fathers ), and instead attempt to reconstruct primitive church practices as they might have existed in the Apostolic Age.

* Apostolic Age

Oneness theologian David K. Bernard claims to trace Oneness adherents back to the first converted Jews of the Apostolic Age.

Christianity has not been a monolithic faith since the first century or Apostolic Age, if ever, and today there exist a large variety of groups that share a common history and tradition within and without mainstream Christianity.

Early Pentecostals saw their teachings on baptism with the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and divine healing as a return to the doctrines and power of the Apostolic Age.

Following the Apostolic Age, from the 2nd century onwards, several controversies developed about how the human and divine are related within the person of Jesus.

Even after the death of the apostles or the end of the Apostolic Age, the practice was continued.

The Cardinal Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, assisted by the Vice-Camerlengo and the other prelates of the office known as the Apostolic Camera, has functions that in essence are limited to a period of sede vacante of the papacy.

In the medieval period, " Dominus Apostolicus " (" the Apostolic Lord ") was also used.

Traditionally it is the period of the Twelve Apostles, dating from the Great Commission until the death of John the Apostle ( about 100 AD Since it is believed that John lived so long and was the last of the twelve to die, there is some overlap between the apostolic age and the first Apostolic Fathers.

22-" Hegesippus-see above under Eusebius who lived at a period not far from the Apostolic age, writing a History of all ecclesiastical events, from the passion of our Lord down to his own period.

His History of the Apostolic Church ( in German, 1851 ; in English, 1853 ) and his History of the Christian Church ( 7 vols., 1858 – 1890 ), opened a new period in American study of ecclesiastical history.

A dislike of the dry Lutheran orthodoxy of the period gave Zinzendorf some sympathy with that side of the growing rationalism which was attacking dogma, while at the same time he felt its lack of earnestness, and of a true and deep understanding of religion and of Christianity, and endeavoured to counteract these defects by pointing men to the historical Christ, and seeking to recapture practices and spirituality of the Apostolic church.

The college has no ruling power except during the sede vacante ( papal vacancy ) period, and even then its powers are extremely limited by the terms of the current law, which is laid down in the Apostolic constitution Universi Dominici Gregis and the Fundamental Law of Vatican City State.

Making allowances for a possible break in the appointment of bishops to Malta during the period of the Fatimid conquest, the Maltese Church is referred to today as the only extant Apostolic See other than Rome itself.

The Armenian Apostolic Church and the Armenian Catholic Church, however, observe the Nativity of Christ on 6 January, and thus do not have a twelve-day period between Christmas and 5 January.

On Monday, January 24, 2010, the Vatican Information Service stated that Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló, formerly an Apostolic Nuncio, as Vice Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church ( in other words, as the deputy to the Camerlengo, Cardinal Bertone ), for a period of three years.

The " Apostolic Fathers " are distinguished from other Christian authors of this same period in that their practices and theology largely fell within those developing traditions of Pauline Christianity or Proto-orthodox Christianity that became the mainstream.

The Apostolic Age of the history of Christianity is traditionally the period of the Twelve Apostles, dating from the Crucifixion of Jesus ( c. 30-33 ) and the Great Commission in Jerusalem until the death of John the Apostle ( c. 115 ) in Anatolia.

The first part of the period, during the lifetimes of the Twelve Apostles, is called the Apostolic Age.

During the Ante-Nicene period following the Apostolic Age, a great diversity of views emerged simultaneously with strong unifying characteristics lacking in the apostolic period.

In this early period he preaches around Galilee and recruits his first disciples who begin to travel with him and eventually form the core of the early Church as it is believed that the Apostles dispersed from Jerusalem to found the Apostolic Sees.

During the Byzantine period, the Armenian Apostolic Church had not been allowed to operate in Constantinople because the two churches mutually regarded each other as heretical.

The period is generally considered to run from the end of New Testament times or end of the Apostolic Age ( c. AD 100 ) to either AD 451 ( the date of the Council of Chalcedon ), or to the 8th century Second Council of Nicaea, see also First seven Ecumenical Councils.

The episcopal see was erected April 25, 1939 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Seoul as the Prefecture Apostolic of Shunsen, the city's name during the period of Japanese rule of Korea.

As contacts between France and Japan delopped during the Bakumatsu period ( on the military side this is the period of the first French military mission to Japan ), Japan was formed into a unique Vicariate Apostolic from 1866 until 1876.