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Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity

Ten Misconceptions about the NT Canon: #5: "Early Christians Disagreed Widely over the Books Which Made It into the Canon"

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  • Michael J. Kruger

Walter Bauer's book, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, is in many ways the basis for a common misperception about the New Testament canon, that there was very little agreement over the books that made it into the canon until the fourth or fifth century. This article evaluates that claim, showing that there is substantial evidence for widespread agreement over the core canonical books from an early time.

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Christian Communities in Western Asia Minor into the Early Second Century: Ignatius and Others as Witnesses against Bauer

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  • Paul Trebilco

This article is a critical confrontation with Walter Bauer’s book Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. The author focuses in particular on what Bauer says about Christianity in Western Asia Minor.

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"How do I go to God?", someone asked Horatius Bonar. The parson answered, "It is with our sins that we go to God, for we have nothing else that we can truly call our own." Horatius Bonar
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