TheologyCanon: A Moving Target?
Bart Ehrman and Dan Brown have made the New Testament canon a contested question again, presenting it as a top-down decree imposed on the early church. Hobson goes back to…
Journal Theology Matters Volume 20 · Issue 1 · 2014 The Canon of the New Testament
The Print Journal
2014 Issue 1
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TheologyThe Formation of the New Testament Canon
Metzger walks through the influences that quietly shaped the New Testament canon: which books circulated, which got read aloud in worship, which got cited as Scripture by the Fathers. The…
TheologyThe Canon of the New Testament
How did the New Testament come to be a single collection of twenty-seven books, distinct from everything else early Christians read? F. F. Bruce examines what historical research can show…