Michael J. Kruger: "The Complete Series: Ten Basic Facts About the NT Canon that Every Christian Should Memorize", Canon Fodder (MichaelJKruger.com), 02 March - 22 July 2013.
"For the last month or so, I have been working through a new series on the NT canon designed to help Christians understand ten basic facts about its origins." (Kruger)
#1: “The New Testament Books are the Earliest Christian Writings We Possess” #2: “Apocryphal Writings are All Written in the Second Century or Later” #3: “The New Testament Books Are Unique Because They Are Apostolic Books” #4: “Some NT Writers Quote Other NT Writers as Scripture” #5: “The Four Gospels are Well Established by the End of the Second Century” #6: “At the End of the Second Century, the Muratorian Fragment lists 22 of our 27 NT books” #7: “Early Christians Often Used Non-Canonical Writings” #8: “The NT Canon Was Not Decided at Nicea—Nor Any Other Church Council” #9: “Christians Did Disagree about the Canonicity of Some NT Books” #10 “Early Christians Believed that Canonical Books were Self-Authenticating.” Michael J. Kruger is President and Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC. Image: "P52 recto.jpg" by papyrologist Bernard Grenfell (1920), as preserved at the John Rylands Library. Photo: courtesy of JRUL. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Second-Century fragment of The Gospel of John. |