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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...

the basis of his exhaustive examination of the New Testament citations in the church fathers, with the understanding that citation proved canonicity. Zahn does not argue that the present twenty-seven-book New Testament canon was in existence as the church entered the second century. But he does argue that there was already a core collection of writings to which the early Christians appealed. This collection was not forced on the church; instead, it was a spontaneous creation that occurred in the
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