The Formation of the Canon of Scripture

  Download and print this timeline (PDF) A summary of our Sunday school lesson on November 29, 2015. Download this study (PDF). Definitions 1. “canon”: from Gr. kanon, ruler, standard for measurement 2. canon of Scripture: “the list of the writings acknowledged by the Church as documents of the divine revelation” (F. F. Bruce) 3. In Roman Catholicism, the church establishes the canon; the church gave birth to the canon. For Protestants, the process of canonization is the process by which the church recognizes which books are canonical and which are not.…

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