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Marcion rejected the other gospels as having been tainted by the Jews. This list by Marcion is the first known listing of what is called a New Testament canon and helped to push the early church to develop an authoritative list of inspired writings.
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the New Testament were written and had begun to circulate among early Christians. However, it was not until centuries later that these texts were collectively named as part of the authoritative body of Christian scripture. The process by which this occurred is called “canonization.”
For Luther the books of the New Testament had authority according to the measure in which they spoke clearly of Christ and of justification through faith alone (“was Christum treibet and prediget”). Luther thus followed more or less the principle of a “Canon in the Canon.”.
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THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON Criteria for Canonization – 141 1) Apostolic – 141 2) Historicity and Importance of the Community Involved – 141 3) Orthodoxy– 142 4) Catholicity– 142 The Collection and Circulation of Pauline Letters– 142 The Acceptance of the Four Gospels– 142 The Influence of the Heretic ...
The Process of Canonization: The process of selecting which books constituted the New Testament canon was gradual and complex, involving ecclesiastical councils, theological debates, and widespread acceptance within various Christian
Testament. Yet His authority is as basic to our acceptance of the New Testament Canon as it is to our acceptance of the Old Testament Canon. The authority which we recognize in the New Testament writings is essentially our Lord’s authority, directly or indirectly.
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How did the New Testament come together as a collection of documents? We understand the coming together of the twenty-seven documents of the New Testament into a single document, or a unified collection of documents, as the process of ‘canonization.’
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