Comments on: The Biblical canon http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/31/the-biblical-canon/ We are Flesh-and-Spirit on a journey to Integral Unity with God. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:01:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/31/the-biblical-canon/comment-page-1/#comment-3763 Huw Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:04:27 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2691#comment-3763 I thank you for the correction - get an account and edit the wiki article! Be sure and provide footnotes, though! The CCEL version of the council of Trullo seems to skip over the "the decision of Carthage 419 on the canon of Scripture": but that could be because I've had no coffee yet this AM. God save us all from having the Rudder in the hands of laity - especially two no-longer-Orthodox laity such as you and I. I thank you for the correction - get an account and edit the wiki article! Be sure and provide footnotes, though! The CCEL version of the council of Trullo seems to skip over the “the decision of Carthage 419 on the canon of Scripture”: but that could be because I’ve had no coffee yet this AM.

God save us all from having the Rudder in the hands of laity - especially two no-longer-Orthodox laity such as you and I.

]]> By: Chris Jones http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/31/the-biblical-canon/comment-page-1/#comment-3736 Chris Jones Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:43:43 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2691#comment-3736 With respect to the Orthodox Church, the passage you cite from Wikipedia is quite wrong. The canon of Scripture, including all of the "deuterocanonical" books of the Old Testament and all 27 books of the New Testament (including the Apocalypse) was adopted by a council at Carthage in 419; the canons of this council were recognized as having ecumenical authority by the Quinisext Council (692) and confirmed by the 7th ecumenical council in 787. Thus the Synod of Jerusalem (1672) has nothing to do with it. It is true that Quinisext itself was not ecumenical, and its canons are not recognized as ecumenical by Rome. But from the Orthodox point of view its canonical legislation was incorporated and given ecumenical authority by Nicaea II. All of the canons accepted by Quinisext (including the decision of Carthage 419 on the canon of Scripture) are found in the Orthodox code of canon law (the Rudder). So sorry, the Orthodox canon of Holy Scripture is not open. Take heart, though. The canon of Scripture is still open for the Lutheran Church. The Lutheran Confessions, alone among Reformation-era doctrinal statements, pointedly omits to specify the canon of Holy Scripture. With respect to the Orthodox Church, the passage you cite from Wikipedia is quite wrong. The canon of Scripture, including all of the “deuterocanonical” books of the Old Testament and all 27 books of the New Testament (including the Apocalypse) was adopted by a council at Carthage in 419; the canons of this council were recognized as having ecumenical authority by the Quinisext Council (692) and confirmed by the 7th ecumenical council in 787. Thus the Synod of Jerusalem (1672) has nothing to do with it.

It is true that Quinisext itself was not ecumenical, and its canons are not recognized as ecumenical by Rome. But from the Orthodox point of view its canonical legislation was incorporated and given ecumenical authority by Nicaea II. All of the canons accepted by Quinisext (including the decision of Carthage 419 on the canon of Scripture) are found in the Orthodox code of canon law (the Rudder).

So sorry, the Orthodox canon of Holy Scripture is not open. Take heart, though. The canon of Scripture is still open for the Lutheran Church. The Lutheran Confessions, alone among Reformation-era doctrinal statements, pointedly omits to specify the canon of Holy Scripture.

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