Which books were inspired by God? The answer to this question is not found in the Bible itself. It necessarily has to appeal to Catholic tradition. Gutenberg Bible on display at the New York Public ...

The rule of faith for Protestants is sola Scriptura. This belief holds that only Scripture is a final, infallible authority for the Christian: thus excluding the Church and Sacred Tradition as equally ...

If anything, the historical details are even messier than Susan Lim’s new account allows. What does history have to do with faith? Everything. As Paul attests in 1 Corinthians 15, Christ died. He was ...

Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition, by Gary A. Anderson. Have modern economic assumptions and the theological underpinnings of Protestantism left us with distorted perspectives ...

(RNS) Is the New Testament missing a few books? In a move that may seem heretical to some Christians, a group of scholars and religious leaders has added 10 new texts to the Christian canon. The work, ...

It is frequently said that Luther did not regard the whole Bible as the divinely-inspired Word of God, but only such parts of it as “urge Christ” (Christum treiben.) He thus assumed “a canon within ...

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