The Closing of the Canon: Going beyond the Canon At the end of this process we have the production of the New Testament writings. They bear silent testimony to a series of developments in which there is continuity with what has gone before, but also there are shifting emphases with corresponding shifts in character. Thus, they exhibit a certain untidiness in which not everything is cut and dried. Development therefore can lead to a diversity that may be not much more than a difference in expression
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