“Canon” is a fighting word nowadays, a label that is applied by special pleaders in secular circles to designate the books that deserve our reverence and to distinguish them from the books that ...

The rule of faith for Protestants is sola Scriptura. This belief holds that only Scripture is a final, infallible authority for the Christian: thus excluding the Church and Sacred Tradition as equally ...

Do we know which books are inspired and belong in the Bible simply by reading them? Are all the biblical books self-attesting, so that no church is needed to determine the biblical canon? This is what ...

“Canon lists” are sometimes regarded as an independent subgenre that may be usefully analyzed in isolation from their literary and rhetorical contexts. This mode of analysis is epitomized in the ...

When television documentaries ex­plore Christianity, they have little difficulty finding diverse manifestations of faith and practice from around the world. A global survey also reveals a surprising, ...

difficulty finding diverse manifestations of faith and practice. A global survey also reveals a surprising diversity when it comes to the content of the Bible. Since 1900, the Christian Century has ...

Why Christians read the diversity within the canon as a unified whole. Well over a decade ago, I was doing postgraduate work at the University of St. Andrews and the place was abuzz with exciting news ...

The historian of ancient Syria-Palestine must make full use of all the evidence supplied by archeology, the Bible, and literary sources outside the biblical canon. The real challenge is to correlate ...