Canon Quote by Anonymous

“Sola scriptura contends that Scripture is complete; it holds absolute authority over the believer.19 This position is of course far removed from the rabbinic…

— Harry Freedman

“Scriptural interpretation is properly an ecclesial activity whose goal is to participate in the reality of which the text speaks by bending the knee…

— Ellen F. Davis

“Moreover, his view was precisely the one that many English Protestants feared would result from a careful analysis of the New Testament text, namely…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“has been diminished in modern Christian thought. Some Definitions and Notes on Use It is important in a book like this to define some…

— Timothy Michael Law

“Whether we admit it or not, as people of faith, we sift our theology through Scripture, Church history and tradition, our reason, and our…

— Sarah Bessey

“Derrida. Deconstruction’s claim that there is “nothing outside the text” [il n’y a pas de hors-texte] can be considered a radical translation of the…

— James K.A. Smith

“If the true Church was really lost at some point, how can you know that your version of it is a true restoration? Falling…

— Andrew Stephen Damick

“The essential unity of the formal and material principles of the Reformation lies in the fact that to affirm that Christianity was, formally and…

— Alister E. McGrath

“If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.”

— Dan Phillips

“the church has unhesitatingly privileged the creed and let the canon fend for itself—”

— N.T. Wright

“My course is a survey of how readings of the same constant text have varied over the centuries, from the formation of the canon…

— Peter J. Gomes

When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the…

— Rachel Held Evans