I’ve been
working through Dr Michael Kruger’s Canon
Revisited, (Michael J. Kruger, “Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins
and Authority of the New Testament Books”, Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books © 2012).
My intention is to have something like a chapter-by-chapter summary that can
easily be referred to. This is information where, it is true, Protestants
generally are weak. Let’s be like John the Baptist: “Make his paths straight”.
My greater
hope, though, is that you’ll buy the book, read it, and internalize it.
Just to keep
track of things, here are links to previous posts taken from the work:
There are
four more chapters to discuss:
Apostolic Origins of the Canon
The Corporate Reception of the Canon:
The Emergence of a Canonical Core
The Corporate Reception of the Canon:
Manuscripts and Christian Book Production
The Corporate Reception of the Canon:
Problem Books and Canonical Boundaries
These last four chapters are where the
details are discussed, the “tumultuous history of the canon”.
My hope is
to work through these carefully over the coming weeks; the details in these
four chapters, as messy as they are, show the hand of God working in a mighty
way to take control of his own Word, his own message.
None of
this, I don’t think, is new. I’ve seen portions of what Dr Kruger writes here
and there – in Oscar Cullmann, Herman Ridderbos, and Greg Bahnsen, among
others. But what’s here is where all the details come together, in one place –
history and doctrine and epistemology – to give Protestants a single focal
point on the New Testament canon, a comprehensive response to the objection
that Protestantism is somehow undermining itself in the acceptance of the New
Testament canon.
Sola
Scriptura is in the Bible.
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