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Abstract. The topic of the biblical canon raises a specific, twofold difficulty for evangelical systematic theologians: the appeal to the Spirit’s testimony and a recognition of divine providence in history. It is crucial to recognize that “canon” entails both a principle —a body of teaching incorporating the word of God that binds the ...
Scholars continue to discuss and debate the scope of the biblical canon. 1 At the heart of the discussion is the nature of canonicity, including a vital philosophical division between those who believe that the canon is a community-determined construction and those who believe that the canon is divinely appointed and thus merely recognized, but not determined, by any given community. 2 ...
The nature (or grounds) of canonicity is thus logically distinct from the history (or recognition) of canonicity. It is the inspiration of a book that renders it authoritative, not human acceptance or recognition of the book. If God has spoken, what He says is divine in itself, regardless of human response to it.
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 or standard of.
- Earle M. Kelley
- 2020
The Concept and Importance of Canonicity by Greg Bahnsen. Scripture as Final Authority. The Christian faith is based upon God’s own self-revelation, not the conflicting opinions or untrustworthy speculations of men. As the Apostle Paul wrote: “your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God” (I Cor. 2:5).
Childs says, “The status of canonicity is not an objectively demonstrable claim but a statement of Christian belief.” 5 One does not confirm the rightness of the canon; rather, one “confesses” it as the believing community has done for centuries. 6 As a member of that community one does not test the legitimacy of the canon; one receives it joyfully as a “sacred inheritance of the ...
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The process by which this occurred is called “canonization.”. The term canon comes from the Greek word kanōn, meaning “measuring rod” or “measuring stick,” and was frequently applied in the ancient church to the collection of texts that informed the beliefs and practices of the Christians who read them. [1]
