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by Dr. Norman Geisler. Canonicity (Fr. canon, rule or norm) refers to the normative or authoritative books inspired by God for inclusion in Holy Scripture. Canonicity is determined by God. It is not the antiquity, authenticity, or religious community that makes a book canonical or authoritative. A book is valuable because it is canonical, and ...
“What complicates any discussion of canonicity in the various Judaisms of the first century of the common era and in early Christianity is the paucity of any clearly stated and universally accepted definitions of what constitutes scripture and canon.”14 This is a criticism historical in nature. 14 Lee M. McDonald and James A. Sanders, eds.,
Mar 18, 2008 · So canonicity describes the standard that books had to meet to be recognized as scripture. On the one hand, deciding which books were inspired seems like a human process. Christians gathered together at church councils in the first several centuries A.D. for the purpose of officially recognizing which books are inspired.
Canonicity Introduction The term “canon” or “canonicity” in Christianity refers to a collection of many books acknowledged or recognized by the early church as inspired by God. Both Jews and Christians possess canons of Scripture. We must remember that the first Christians did not possess a New Testament canon but rather they relied on the
F.F. Bruce. Our word ‘canon’ goes back through Latin to the Greek word kanon. primarily meaning a ‘reed’ or ‘rod’. The Greek word acquired two secondary meanings: (1) a ‘measuring-rod’ or ‘standard’. and (2) a ‘list’ or ‘index’. Origen, early in the third century A.D., applied the former of these two secondary ...
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In NT Greek kanw/n kanon (“limit, area, rule, principle”) is used in 2 Cor 10:13-16 (three times) as limit, or geographical area of ministry, and in Gal 6:16 as a rule or principle of conduct. Later, “canon” meant authority (as R. C. “canon law”). The term eventually developed into “which books” are a part of the Bible.
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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
