for whether, in addition to being originally connected to Jesus, a document was ‘catholic’, that is, universally recognized (katholikos). These principles have been named since the second century of the Common Era, when the New Testament as we would recognize it was widely accepted. The actual listing of a table of contents that agrees with ours was finalized during the fourth century. By attending historically to how the individual books of the New Testament were generated in their times, and fit
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