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Author
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Did the New Testament canon arise naturally from within the early Christian faith? Were the books written as Scripture, or did they become Scripture? Why did early Christians have a canon at all?
These are the types of questions that led Michael J. Kruger to pick apart modern scholarship's dominant view that the New Testament is a late creation of the church imposed on books originally written for another purpose. Calling into question this commonly...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xvi, 311 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gerd Theissen takes up the problem of the emergence of the New Testament canon out of the wide variety of early Christian literature. Drawing from Max Weber's discussion of the evolution of religious organizations, Theissen describes the development of early Christian literature as a series of phases in the life of the movement: the charismatic, the pseudepigraphic, the functional, and the canonical"--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
US edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 256 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Christianity in the twenty-first century is a global phenomenon. But in the second century, its future was not at all certain. Initially Christianity possessed little social or cultural influence and found itself fighting for its life. While apostolic tradition was emerging as a "rule of faith," factions contested the nature of the gospel, and pagan philosophers found its claims scandalous. And while its pathway was tenuous, Christianity was forming...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
Multiple
Description
How much did the theological arguments of the church affect the copying of the New Testament text? Focusing on issues of textual criticism, this inaugural volume of the Text and canon of the New Testament series offers some answers to that question and responds to some of Bart Ehrman's views about the transmission of the New Testament text. The book begins with the full transcription of Wallace's presentation at the Fourth Annual Greer-Heard Forum,...
Author
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Westbow Press rev.
Physical Desc
xiv, 127 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Leaders of the early Church were divided over Revelation -- its uncertain authorship, its unorthodox theology, even its terrible grammar. Should it be considered Scripture? Then the first Christian emperor saw himself prophesied in its pages. Here is the first comprehensive history of how Revelation came to be included in the New Testament. Early Christians applied four tests to writings when they were deciding which works merited treatment as Scripture:...
8) Christ the center: how the Rule of Faith, the Nomina Sacra, and numerical patterns shape the canon
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xix, 416 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scripture is a beautiful mosaic of Christ. In Christ the Center, Tomas Bokedal shows how the canon is shaped by numerical patterns of nomina sacra--scribal reverence for divine names. These patterns, which especially revolve around Christ, reveal the devotional and theological preoccupations of the earliest Christians. The rule of faith is not a later development; it is in the very text of Scripture. Christ the Center shows a remarkable interplay...