a period of time, but carries with it the evaluative connotation that the time of the beginning determines the very nature of Christianity.6 Also to be avoided, for similar reasons, are references to an ‘apostolic age’ or ‘apostolic times’, despite the titles of studies like those of Leonhard Goppelt or George Caird and despite Eusebius’ use of the latter phrase.7 For such a description also has evaluative connotations: an ‘apostolic age’ is not just the time when people called ‘apostles’ lived,
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