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The Authority of the New Testament Scriptures is Herman Ridderbos’ succinct classic on the canonicity of the New Testament. “The very ground or basis for the recognition of the canon is therefore, in principle, redemptive-historical, i.e. Christological. For Christ himself is not only the canon in which God comes to the world, but Christ establishes the canon and gives it its concrete historical...

the special characteristics and nuances that inspiration receives from the history of revelation and thus operates with a prepossesed view of revelation. The latter may then be understood in an intellectualistic sense as a totality of divine pronouncements, which only need to be brought together in order to constitute a completely balanced system of revealed truth. Our objection is not that this conception lays too much emphasis upon the revelatory character of Scripture. In this respect—at least
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