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Mar 18, 2008 · This study discusses the tests of canonicity that were used, the history of canonization and a brief explanation of why certain disputed books are not scripture. II. Summary: The collection of 66 books were properly recognized by the early church as the complete authoritative scriptures not to be added to or subtracted from.
It is not the aim of this paper to review all the details of canon history, interesting though they are. Our aim is rather to discuss the basic principles involved in establishing the sacred canon. These principles are simple and clear. They are derived from the Bible itself.
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Canon
- The Old Testament Canon
- Conclusion
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
What should it be read as: an as-sortment of evidentiary sources, variously reliable, pertaining to the history of an antique culture, or an anthology of discrete and conflicting ideologies that have ac-cidentally survived from ancient Israel?
Jan 1, 2008 · During the first several centuries of the church, there was debate over whether books like 2 Peter or Revelation belonged in the canon of the New Testament. For the New Testament, at least, canonicity was tightly connected to authorship.
- Jonathan McCormick
- 2020
In this essay I will argue that there were four criteria the early church employed to fix the NT canon: apostolicity, orthodoxy, catholicity and spirituality.
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The question naturally arises, what process and by what means did the early church recognize which books were canonical and which books were not? The following summarizes the tests used to discern which books were canonical.
