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“Any scientific investigator of Scripture repeatedly confronts the issue of the character of the Bible’s authority,” writes Herman Ridderbos in the opening lines of this book. From there he goes on to examine the basis for the church’s acceptance of the New Testament as canonical. More than a merely academic question, the canonicity of the New Testament remains a vital concern for the church...

The problem is not a terminological one about canon, a word that appears only a few times in the New Testament54 (and then in a more general sense55). It is a question about the material authority the canonical writings had for the church from its inception56—authority that at least in the West determined the ecclesiastical use of canon to mean a standard, rule, and norm for faith and life.57 The material authority of the canonical writings originates in the history of redemption because in that
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