History, Theology and the Biblical Canon

Abstract

"It has been claimed that the evangelical approach to the question of the biblical canon was, historically, the weakest link in the evangelical doctrine of Scripture.1 If this assessment is correct, the reason for this weakness may be twofold. First, the historical questions related to the genesis of the canon of both the OT and the NT are extremely complex. And since the accessible data had been painstakingly collated and evaluated by the turn of the twentieth century,2 with little new material surfacing during the last eighty years, it is understandable that the historical evidence was regarded as settled"