paul wrote the first letter we know of containing the full 27 books.
paul wrote the first letter we know of containing the full 27 books.
who wrote the first letter we know of containing the full 27 books?
paul
this debate primarily concerned whether certain works should be read in the church service or only privately. these works were widely used but not necessarily considered "catholic" or 'universal.' such works include the didache, shepherd of hermas, 1 clement, 2 clement, the epistle of barnabas, and to a lesser extent the apocalypse of peter. considering the generally accepted dates of authorship for all of the canonical new testament works (ca. 100 ce), as well as the various witnesses to canonicity extant among the writings of ignatius, polycarp, irenaeus, etc., the four gospels and letters of paul were held by the gentile christian community as scriptural, and 200 years were needed to finalize the canon; from the beginning of the 2nd century to the mid-4th century, no book in the final canon was ever declared spurious or heretical, except for the revelation of john which the council of laodicea in 363–364 ce rejected (although it accepted all of the other 26 books in the new testament). this was possibly due to fears of the influence of montanism which used the book extensively to support their theology. see revelation of john for more details. athanasius wrote his easter letter in 367 ce which defined a canon of 27 books, identical to the current canon, but also listed two works that were "not in the canon but to be read:" the shepherd of hermas and the didache. nevertheless, the early church leaders in the 3rd and 4th centuries generally distinguished between canonical works and those that were not canonical but 'useful,' or 'good for teaching,' though never relegating any of the final 27 books to the latter category. one aim with establishing the canon was to capture only those works which were held to have been written by the apostles, or their close associates, and as the muratorian fragment canon (ca. 150–175 ce) states concerning the shepherd of hermas:
new testament apocrypha
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