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Evangelical Protestant theology has an authority problem. Not only does it struggle to account theologically for its connection with earlier eras of Christianity, but it also fails to provide a satisfying and theologically robust explanation for the basis of ecclesial authority and who may legitimately claim it. This dissertation proposes that apostolicity is the most fitting theological concept to answer these questions and the lack of a properly Protestant definition thereof impoverishes Evangelical theology and contributes to the aforementioned problems. Part one of the dissertation reviews first the biblical and then the historical accounts of apostolicity, particularly from the Patristic and Reformation eras. I then engage critically with the work of Joseph Ratzinger and C. Peter Wagner to enumerate two dominant alternatives for understanding apostolicity extant today: the Institutional Succession Model and the Dynamic Production Model. I argue that neither model is fit for acceptance by a Protestant theologian. In part two I draw on the work of Richard Bauckham, Allison Trites, Thomas Reid, C. A. J. Coady, Linda Zagzebski, Mats Wahlberg, Gary Burge, John Calvin, John Flett and Matthew Bates to argue that testimony is a better basis for a renewed classical account of apostolicity, which I define as an economy of divine testimonial authority. I then critically engage Ephraim Radner and John Flett to fend off possible counter-arguments to my proposal, before concluding with the claim that apostolicity ought to be focused on testimony—that is, what someone (God) says about something (himself and his divine, salvific purposes) to someone (authorized witnesses, which are “whoever believes in the Son of God,” 1 John 5:10, see also vv.6-12). This ultimately describes a commissioning given to every Christian believer to interpret and proclaim the gospel of Christ—the same gospel, proclaimed in the same manner as the apostles, to whom it was first entrusted. This commissioning creates communities of interpretation, empowered by the Holy Spirit, who gather around the same central Christ story told by the earliest Christians and passed through a succession of testimony to believers today. These communities of testimony, taken in aggregate are the church and it is their adherence to this central gospel story that makes them apostolic.