The question of canon
Subtitle: challenging the status quo in the New Testament debate
Publisher: IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Downers Grove, Ill., USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780830840311
Copyright date: 2013
Description: Kruger examines modern scholarship's view that the New Testament is a late creation of the church imposed on books originally written for another purpose. He tackles the five most prevalent objections to the classic understanding of a quickly emerging, self-authenticating collection of authoritative scriptures, and addresses foundational and paradigmatic assumptions of the extrinsic model as he provides powerful rebuttals and further support for the classic, "intrinsic" view.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The definition of canon : must we make a sharp distinction between the definitions of canon and scripture?; title: The origins of canon : was there really nothing in early Christianity that may have led to a canon?; title: The writing of canon : were early Christians averse to written documents?; title: The authors of canon : were the New Testament authors unaware of their own authority?; title: The date of canon : were the New Testament books first regarded as scripture at the end of the second century?; title: Conclusion