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A High View of Scripture?: The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon is unavailable, but you can change that!

For most evangelicals, a key tenet of belief is a “high view of Scripture,” often defined as adherence to a verbal plenary inspiration view, along with the subsequent doctrine of inerrancy this view assumes. In this thought-provoking book, Craig Allert questions whether this view is in fact high enough. In particular, he averts that our view of the Bible has not been sufficiently informed by how...

terms. It is that the authoritative texts which could appropriately be cited as “Scripture” or “that which stands written” were not yet felt to form a closed corpus to which nothing might be added.30 Sundberg’s study has one more important corollary for New Testament canon formulation. If we do accept that the Old Testament canon of Scripture was defined after a long development, we are already predisposed to think that something similar might have occurred for the New Testament canon as well. In
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