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The canon of Scripture was not shaped by the church of the second, third, or fourth centuries, it shaped them. Since God's word is inspired and thereby self‐attesting, so each self‐attested manuscript was received, recognized, and regularly used by the church, making the canon self‐establishing.
Canonics was the task of seeking to find a basis or a standard by which to know what is true or false, what was worth seeking and what should be avoided. Logic and method, according to Epicurus, composed this area of study.
Sep 29, 2009 · The canon was thus a catalogue of writings forming a rule of truth, sacred, divine, revealed by God for the instruction of men. The rule was perfect for its purpose.
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Definition of canon. This important subject involves the question of which books actually were inspired by God and are therefore the infallible rule of faith and practice. Originally the term “canon” did not mean a list of books. The Greeks used the word for a standard of excellence.
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There are many factors that contribute to the questioning of the Bible’s reliability and authority. One of these is ignorance of how the modern Biblical canon was formed. Dan Brown, in his best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, took inspiration from an erroneous position that the Bible was pieced together by politically motivated members of the Cou...
There have been many attacks on the authority and reliability of the Bible, especially in recent years. One of these attacks centers around how the Bible was compiled. This is an important topic because it speaks to the authenticity and reliability of the Bible. Who decided what books would be included and what criteria were used? How can we know...
To fully understand this topic, it is important to know how certain words are used. The word “canon” can have different meanings. Merriam Webster defines “canon” as, “an authoritative list of books accepted as Holy Scripture [or] the authentic works of a writer.”1 Webster further defines this term as, “an accepted principle or rule [or] a criterion...
Formation Just as there are two models of canonization, there are two viewpoints regarding the canonization of the Old Testament. Referencing D. G. Dunn, Lee McDonald points out that the Old Testament cannot function as canon for Christians the way it does for the Jews. He also suggests that the New Testament functions as a canon within a canon.19 ...
While it would have been interesting to look at several books that were debated (some of which were accepted and others that were not), time and space simply did not allow for it. But by looking at the different models of canonicity (the community and the intrinsic), and by looking at the organic process of acceptance of a majority of the documents...
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This paper has three main parts: the first draws a linear process of canon generation, beginning from text to scripture and possibly becoming canonical. The second focuses on the creation of the Christian canon by exploring the stages and the implications of naming the canon as `Testaments`.
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In the fourth century, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, refers to the recognised sacred books as `canonical’, and others as being ‘ecclesiastical’ or ‘apocryphal’. Jerome, the eminent biblical scholar, actually mentions ‘the list of Canonical Scriptures’.
