1. Apostolic Church means the Church of apostolic times and thus covers the period up to about A.D. 70. The apostolic Church is known to us above all through the writings of the NT which either, like the gospels, present its tradition about Jesus Christ, or, like Acts and the epistles, describe its way of life. But a number of ancient non-canonical texts, such as the Didache, the Epistles of Clement and Barnabas contain liturgical, exegetical and disciplinary elements which date back to early Christianit…