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The Formation and Significance of the Christian Biblical Canon: A Study in Text, Ritual and Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book offers a fresh, cross-disciplinary approach to the current discussion on the Christian canon formation process. By carefully integrating historical, hermeneutical, and theological aspects to account for the emergence of the canon, Bokedal seeks to offer a more comprehensive picture of the canon development than has previously been achieved. The formation and continuous usage of the...

Two features make my thesis point beyond self-evident common sense, namely, on the one hand, the stress laid on biblical canonicity’s necessary contextualization as part of the life of the Christian church, without which there can be no real talk of this canon; and, on the other hand, the stress laid on the one event of canonization and canonical function. This event contains both a process of coming into being, and the canon’s perennial ecclesial usage. The identity of the canon here comes to the
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