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John C. Peckham brings out the opposition of two fundamental models of canonicity: either canonical status is conferred by the community, extrinsically; or canonical status is merely recognized by the community, which may or may not make an official pronouncement.42 One meets the community-based model today in two sharply different forms: first, the Roman Catholic traditional theology of canon ...
Oct 25, 2017 · Canonicity involves not merely a work’s admission into an elite club, but its induction into ongoing critical dialogue and contestations of literary value. The canon is a set of texts whose value and readability have borne the test of time: it is also the modality that establishes the criteria to be deployed for assessing these texts.
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. 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 traditional position sees the extant canon of the OT emerge in three stages. 9 (1) The graded ‘canonicity’ of the three parts of the tanach (TN”K: Torah, Nebiim, Ketubim, i.e. the Law, the Prophets and the Writings) in early 10 and rabbinic Judaism must have had definite historical presuppositions in earlier times. 11 The dominance of the law is often used as an argument for the ...
The discourse of canonicity thus relies on an economy of belief about the possibility and validity of agreement about literary value. Within this economy, the canon, in whichever composition, is both the evidence and the outcome of agreement, without which value would seemingly become entirely speculative.
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An important consequence of the non-falsifiable nature of miracles is that the miraculous nature of an event can be established only negatively, by process of elimination. A good example of this is the Catholic Church’s procedure of confirming miracles for sake of beatification, which is done by systematically ruling out scientific explanations of the event in question.
