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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...

not come into being because the church itself instituted a standard to regulate its preaching and instruction; nor is the canon merely a record of what the early church believed. In its redemptive-historical sense, the canon is not the product of the church; rather the church is to be the product of the canon. Although the canon certainly shows what the apostles and the early church believed, its main significance is not that but that it embodies the revelatory Word of God. (2) When understood in
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