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| | Biblical canon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In addition to the canonical four gospels, the fifth gospel is the Gospel of Thomas. | | | A fourth book in the canon is the Doctrine and Covenants, a continually expanding work written in modern times by the presiding presidents of the LDS church, and believed by members to be the voice of God for the contemporary world. | | | Generally, the closure of the canon reflects a belief from the faith community that the formative period of the religion has ended, and that texts from that period can be collected into an authoritative body of work. |
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| | Singing of Psalms: Part XII |
| | The biblical testimony is that worship song is a divine ordinance, that the text of worship song is a divine provision through inspired prophets, that the Lord has deposited such a text in the canon of Scripture, and that the canon is sufficient for the religious functions for which it was given. | | | Not only does the canon serve as an authoritative rule of what practice is permitted in worship, but it also supplies the text to be recited in certain specified acts of worship. | | | The Lord has appointed the ordinance of worship song for the church of the Old and New Testaments, and in the canon of Scripture has supplied us with a collected book of worship song; thus one of the functions which the Lord intends Scripture to fulfill is to act as a text for worship song. |
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| | It is this edited canon of the Old Testament that is now in almost universal use, and is regarded as authoritative amongst traditions as diverse as Presbyterianism and Jehovah's Witnesses. | | | It is not surprising then that the Christians rejected this Jewish Old Testament canon, and continued to use the Septuagint, a Greek version of the Old Testament produced in Alexandria beginning in the third century BC. | | | The second document is the Gospel of Thomas, one of the Nag Hammadi texts discovered in Egypt in 1945. |
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| | Pontifications » Biblical Canon |
| | The canonical list is a historically achieved commendation by the church as community to the church as association of persons: here are documents in which to see how the church spoke the gospel while the church& reliance on the apostles was not yet problematic. | | | Hence it is true to say both that the canon of Scripture imposed itself on the Church and that the Church dogmatically imposed the canon. | | | But the fact is that these books established their place in the canon of the early Church, and have been studied and expounded in the Church for centuries without anything unworthy of their apparent authors, or inconsistent with the rest of Scripture, either in teaching or in tone, being found in them. |
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| | Jerry Stokes Hisword3 Canon |
| | The word canon, in classical Greek, is properly a straight rod, "a rule" in the widest sense, and especially in the phrases "the rule of the Church," "the rule of faith," "the rule of truth," The first direct application of the term canon to the Scriptures seems to be in the verses of Amphilochius (cir. | | | The canon does not derive its authority from the church, whether Jewish or Christian; the office of the church is merely that of a custodian and a witness." So likewise Dr. J. | | | The canonical process continues, but in a rather different way—once the First Testament is incorporated into the larger Christian Bible in relation to the Second Testament and the ultimate revelation of God’s Word in the person of Jesus Christ. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canon of the Old Testament |
| | The 59th (or 60th) canon of the provincial Council of Laodicea (the authenticity of which however is contested) gives a catalogue of the Scriptures entirely in accord with the ideas of St. Cyril of Jerusalem. | | | In 1442, during the life, and with the approval, of this Council, Eugenius IV issued several Bulls, or decrees, with a view to restore the Oriental schismatic bodies to communion with Rome, and according to the common teaching of theologians these documents are infallible states of doctrine. | | | The most striking difference between the Catholic and Protestant Bibles is the presence in the former of a number of writings which are wanting in the latter and also in the Hebrew Bible, which became the Old Testament of Protestantism. |
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| | Chapter 4: The Biblical Canon |
| | As a result of this ruling, the Jewish canon of Scripture would henceforth be deprived of such great truths as the action of guardian angels, God’s creation of the universe out of nothing, and the reality of the after-life, since all of these revelations are contained in the seven books that the rabbis rejected. | | | In determining the canon, both Tradition and Magisterium come into play, as is logical, since the books of the Bible cannot canonize themselves. | | | The Eastern Father of the Church, Saint Athanasius, was the first to use the term to refer to the sacred books. |
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| | Biblical Canons |
| | This present study is concerned with establishing the canon list considered to be normative today by the authorities most respected by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. | | | The Biblical Canon Of The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Today by R. Cowley Ostkirchliche Studien, 1974, Volume 23, pp. | | | The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and Its Components by Mark Hamilton. |
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| | The Da Vinci Code, Conspiracy Theory and Biblical Canon |
| | It was the canonical Gospels that helped to create the great interest in and reflection upon Jesus that led to creation, especially near the end of the first century and certainly in the second century and beyond, of a number of other gospel-like documents. | | | The Egerton gospel consists of quotations and paraphrases from all four of the canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), and is clearly dependent upon the canonical gospels in three of its four units of material. | | | Constantine did not create the canon of “official” Gospels, but from the second century on, according to the outward attestation and manuscript evidence, the four canonical Gospels were already linked. |
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| | Canon Of The Bible |
| | Anglican Church: The canon of the Anglican falls between the Catholic Church and many Protestant denominations by accepting only the Jewish canon and the New Testament as authoritative, but also by accepting segments of the apocryphal writings in the lectionary and liturgy. | | | The New Testament in what is referred to as the "broader" canon is made up of thirty-five books, joining to the usual twenty-seven books eight additional texts, namely four sections of church order from a compilation called Sinodos, two sections from the Ethiopic Book of the Covenant, Ethiopic Clement, and Ethiopic Didascalia. | | | For a large part of the Syrian Church this constituted the closing of the canon, for after the Council of Ephesus (431 CE) the East Syrians separated themselves as Nestorians from the Great Church. |
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| | Solae (Quae |
| | He seemed to understand the phenomenon primarily as a carryover from late Medieval spirituality and piety, with the possible implication that a populist movement might be led to unintentionally carry on the foregoing tradition. | | | Already in the early debates of the sixteenth century the principle of sola scriptura was explicitly articulated in conjunction with the movement to produce quantities of vernacular Bibles. | | | Although they initially agreed strongly on most issues Karlstadt seems ironically to represent for Hätzer one who would denigrate the authority of Scripture by daring to define, using historical and academic criteria, which Scriptures were to be used as a basis for teaching, and which were not. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Canon Debate: Books: Lee Martin McDonald,James A. Sanders |
| | These and related questions are central to the 15 essays on the OT canon and the 16 on the NT. | | | Essays by Albert Sundberg ("The Septuagint: The Bible of Hellenistic Judaism"), Emmanuel Tov, ("The Status of the Masoretic Text in Modern Text Editions of the Hebrew Bible: The Relevance of Canon"), and Craig Evans ("The Scripture of Jesus and His Earliest Followers") all point to the indissoluble connection between text and canon. | | | If you're at all curious about how the Bible came to be and why different religious traditions have different Bibles, THE CANON DEBATE will give you lots to mull over. |
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| | Bible and Tradition Apologetics Index Page |
| | Dialogue on Whether the Fathers Taught "Perspicuity" of Scripture and Denied the Necessity of Tradition and an Authoritative Church (Dave Armstrong vs. | | | Reply to a Protestant Counter-Response on Development of Doctrine (Particularly With Regard to the New Testament Canon and the Papacy) (Dave Armstrong vs. | | | The Canon of Scripture: Did the Catholic Church Create It Or Merely Authoritatively Acknowledge It? |
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| | Biblical Stuff |
| | the original texts and versions, the collections of texts we refer to as the biblical | | | canon, comparisons between canonical and (according to some) non-canonical |
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| | Theology Today - Vol 46, No.2 - July 1989 - BOOK NOTES - The Formation of the Christian Biblical Canon |
| | In this book, McDonald treats a topic of current interest and heated debate as evidenced by the recent publication of several books that take up various aspects of the theological idea of a biblical canon and the historical phenomenon of its formation. | | | Certainly, to his credit, McDonald often elevates a historian's interest in the problem to a theological, even pastoral level, suggesting in chapter summaries how decisions made within earliest Christianity in preserving, collecting, and canonizing certain books have continuing theological importance for the church today. | | | Theology Today - Vol 46, No.2 - July 1989 - BOOK NOTES - The Formation of the Christian Biblical Canon |
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| | On the Biblical Canon |
| | Comparison Chart of the Historically Held Canons of Different Churches | | | This page presents various works I've compiled concerning the Biblical Canon. | | | the largest Christian Biblical Canon in East or West!!! |
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| | Biblical Canon Bibliography: Main Menu |
| | This bibliography was compiled in conjunction with the article on canon in TIC Talk 45. | | | Welcome to the ubs-translations.org database of bibliography on the biblical canon. |
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