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At the same time, Barth does not ignore the other Catholic line: Vatican I itself and such a representative Dogmatiker as Bernhard Bartmann have stated that the church’s decision about the canon was to acknowledge what God had previously inspired and decided.60 As Oscar Cullmann argued long ago (highlighting the two senses of “tradition”), the ancient church bowed before the precedence ...
Canon 19 - Concerning the Paulianists who have flown for refuge to the Catholic Church, it has been decreed that they must by all means be rebaptized; and if any of them who in past time have been numbered among their clergy should be found blameless and without reproach, let them be rebaptized and ordained by the Bishop of the Catholic Church; but if the examination should discover them to be ...
CANONICITY The quality of a book, or part of a book of the Bible, as divinely inspired and therefore containing the word of God. ... Still $82,728 left to raise by Dec 12—please give today ...
Canon of the Holy Scriptures.. —The word canon as applied to the Scriptures has long had a special and consecrated meaning. In its fullest comprehension it signifies the authoritative list or closed number of the writings composed under Divine inspiration, and destined for the well-being of the Church, using the latter word in the wide sense of the theocratic society which began with God‘s ...
The teaching of the apostles was received as a body of truth which was a criteria for doctrine and life in the church; because this teaching was passed down to the church and through the church, it was called the “tradition” (what had been “delivered”) or the “deposit” (to be distinguished from the uninspired traditions of men which the Bible elsewhere condemns (e.g. Col. 2:8; Matt ...
But in the Roman Catholic Canon we have books like the Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, the Epistle to Jeremiah, the Song of the Three Children, the Story of Susanna, Bel and the dragon, 1st and 2nd Maccabees; those are all books that are in the Roman Catholic Church’s Canon that are not in the Protestant Canon.
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Mar 18, 2008 · The Apocrypha includes some specific Catholic doctrines, such as purgatory and prayer for the dead (2 Maccabees 12:39-46), and salvation by works (almsgiving – Tobit 12:9). Interestingly, the Catholic Church officially recognized these books as scripture in A.D. 1546, only 29 years after Martin Luther criticized these doctrines as unbiblical.
