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The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate is unavailable, but you can change that!

Did the New Testament canon arise naturally from within the early Christian faith? Were the books written as Scripture, or did they become Scripture by a decision of the second-century church? Why did early Christians have a canon at all? These are the types of questions that led Michael J. Kruger to pick apart modern scholarship?s dominant view that the New Testament is a late creation...

balanced and more complete vision of the canon is realized. Thus, we should not be forced to choose between them. In addition, this multidimensional approach to the definition of canon provides much-needed clarification to the ongoing debate over the “date” of canon. As Barton and others have already noted, the date assigned to the canon is, to some extent, correlative to the definition of canon one brings to the table.[63] On the exclusive definition, we do not have a canon until about the fourth
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