Petrine

[ pee-trahyn, -trin ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Petrine

/ ˈpiːtraɪn /

New Testament of or relating to St Peter, his position of leadership, or the epistles, etc, attributed to him
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

Origin of Petrine¹

1840–50; < Late Latin Petr ( us ) Peter + -ine ¹

The First Gospel, written about the time this church union movement was inaugurated, was adopted by the Petrine churches.

This chapter was added to counteract the Johannine influence and exalt the Petrine teachings so dear to Rome.

There is, for some reason or other, a distinct predominance of Petrine stories among these legends.

Thus they are for the most part a species of the larger pseudo-Petrine genus.

In them Paul exposes the fact that there were two parties in the early church, the Pauline and the Petrine.

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