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- The process culminated in 382 as the Council of Rome, which was convened under the leadership of Pope Damasus, promulgated the 73-book scriptural canon.
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But the Bible as a whole was not officially compiled until the late fourth century, illustrating that it was the Catholic Church who determined the canon—or list of books—of the Bible under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
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Catholics put the Church before the Bible because the Church...
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AD : At the Council of Florence, the entire Church recognized the 27 books. This council confirmed the Roman Catholic Canon of the Bible which Pope Damasus I had published a thousand years earlier. So, by 1439, all orthodox branches of the Church were legally bound to the same canon. This is 100 years before the Reformation. 1536
DateEventAD 51-125The New Testament books are written.140Marcion, a businessman in Rome, taught ...200The periphery of the canon is not yet ...367The earliest extant list of the books of ...- In The Beginning…
- The Deathbed Translation of Bede
- The Medieval King Who Was Also A Bible Translator
- The Monk, The Mystic, and The Heretic
In fact, the history of English translations really begins in the 600s with a worker at an English monastery named Caedmon. One night as he was sleeping in the stable, so the story goes, a voice called to him in a vision, beckoning him to sing the story of creation. Caedmon, who previously had known no poetry nor had any ability as a singer, sudden...
But the English world, such as it was back then, did not have to wait long for an actual translation. That came with the Venerable Bede, born in 672 or 673, around the time of Caedmon’s death. Bede is remembered as the author of a monumental history of the English and a giant of English theology in the early Middle Ages. The last work of his life w...
If anyone was going to produce an English version of Scripture, Bede is exactly the kind of person you’d expect to do it. The next translator is the last person you’d expect. It was Easter season 878 and the Vikings had overrun much of the English kingdom of Wessex. While Vikings threatened Europe from the North, Muslim armies had advanced from the...
There are two more bright lights of biblical scholarship before we get to Wycliffe. One was Aelfric, a Bede-like figure who was abbot of a monastery near Oxford and lived from the mid-900s to the early 1000s, dying before the epochal Norman invasion of England in 1066. He is commonly regarded as one of the most prolific Old English writers. Aelfric...
According to the Decretum Gelasianum (a work written by an anonymous scholar between AD 519 and 553), Catholic Church officials cited a list of books of scripture presented as having been made canonical at the Council of Rome (382).
Oct 29, 2009 · Martin Luther was a German theologian who challenged a number of teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. His 1517 document, "95 Theses," sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Sep 1, 1997 · Catholics put the Church before the Bible because the Church existed first and wrote and compiled the Bible. The authority of the Bible depends on that of the Church.
The Bible was read privately by a large portion of the population only after the advent of cheap printing in the 16th/17th centuries. Thus the Bible was not withheld ; it was being read aloud in church for the benefit of all the laity.
