Age Quote by Hans Kung

“The word “canon” is derived from a Hebrew word signifying “reed” (qaneh) and by extension “measuring stick.” It enters into the Greek language as…

— J. Daniel Hays

“The biblical writings have an inherent authority as works uniquely inspired by God. Canonization is the process of recognizing that inherent authority, not bestowing…

— Robert L. Plummer

“The question of “canon and creed,” which underlies quite a bit of this book, has become quite urgent and controversial and needs to be…

— N.T. Wright

“We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words and images…

— Anonymous

“The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of…

— R. Alan Woods

“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances in science,…

— James Hannam

“A canon is a guarded catalogue of that speech, music and art which houses inside us, which is irrevocably familiar to our homecomings. And…

— George Steiner

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

— Barbara Tuchman

One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that…

— Lancelot Andrewes

We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop,…

— Harold Bloom

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many…

— Bill Vaughan

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche