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Petrine

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Pe·trine  (ptrn)
adj.
Of or relating to Saint Peter.

[Late Latin Petrus, Saint Peter + -ine.]

Petrine [ˈpiːtraɪn]
adj
1. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) New Testament of or relating to St Peter (died ?67 ad), the Christian apostle regarded by Roman Catholics as the first pope, his position of leadership, or the epistles, etc., attributed to him
2. (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) RC Church of or relating to the supremacy in the Church that the pope is regarded as having inherited from St Peter the Petrine claims


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Thus the Petrine charism morphed into the president's "charism of political discernment," as Weigel put it in a January 2003 First Things article titled "Moral Clarity in a Time of War.
For reasons unnecessary to espouse here, we side with the Petrine authorship and endorse Ladd's (1991) statement that this letter comes shortly after I Peter and is intended to warn Christians against false teachers (cf.
In the archives, Paul pored over ornately lettered manuscripts of the Petrine era and wrote notes on index cards, which he later filed into cardboard boxes decorated in paper made to look like green marble.
 
 
 
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