The Canon’s Blurry Edges

The Canon’s Blurry Edges July 20, 2017

First, I hope you all saw that Canon: The Card Game was featured in the online periodical Christian Today. I thought the author, Joseph Hartropp, did a fantastic job of conveying the essence of the game and the things that led to its creation.

Before that, Doug Chaplin shared thoughts on the canon’s blurry edges. The things he focuses on – the ending of Mark and the story of the woman caught in adultery in John – are the very reason that I focus on textual criticism in the second New Testament deck of Canon: The Card Game, with cards representing these very texts, among others.

Of related interest, John Meade blogged about a piece by Armin Lange on the “Canonical History of the Hebrew Bible.” And a while back, Pliny the In-Between depicted the Council of Nicaea voting on what to consider canonical science – presumably reflecting the mistaken idea that that council decided on the biblical canon.

Canonical science


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