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Sep 11, 2021 · The Q-Document (“Quelle” = “source” in German) is a hypothetical collection of sayings & teachings of Jesus; many scholars think it was a written source (from the 50’s?) used later by Matthew and Luke, but it is now lost. The NT Gospels are similar to ancient biographies in literary form, but very different from modern biographies!
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH in the Council of Trent, 1546 A.D., declared eleven of the books to be canonical, and they appear in the modern Catholic edition of the Scriptures. THE VIEW OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH It is commonly agreed that some of these books contain material of literary merit and historical value. But their canonicity has been
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- Introduction
- Canon
- The Old Testament Canon
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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...
- Earle M. Kelley
- 2020
The first answer is the authority of the church. This is the view advanced by the Roman Catholic Church. She asserts that whatever she declares to be Scripture is to be confidently received as such. In other words, Rome claims the power to determine the canon. In the early sixteenth century, Albert Pighius wrote: `The Church can give canonical
God, not by the church, not by any human authority. What arrogance the Church of Rome displays when it presumes to claim this authority for itself. According to Catholic teaching, the power and authority to establish the canon lies in its hands. In 1546 the Council of Trent adopted a “Decree concerning the Canonical Scriptures.”
Canons and Their Development. The biblical canon is the set of books Christians hold as divinely inspired and thus make up the Sacred Scriptures. The process of creating or choosing the canon is divinely inspired. However, the process of determining the Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Bibles has resulted in different Old Testament canons.
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work also argued that apostolicity is the central criterion for canonicity, and a book should be accepted only if it bears “authenticating proof of its apostolicity””. (Kruger, 75-76) • In fairness, the Criteria-of-Canonicity Model does inject some positive elements into the study of canonicity.
