Development of the New Testament canon Development of the New Testament canon The canon of the New Testament is the set of books Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian Bible. For most, it is an agreed-upon list of twenty-seven books that includes the Canonical Gospels, Acts, letters of the Apostles, and Revelation. The books of the canon of the New Testament were written before 120 AD. For the Orthodox, the recognition of these writings as authoritative was formalized in the Second Council of Trullan of 692. The Catholic Church made dogmatic definition upon its Biblical canon in 382 at
The Books of the Bible Biblica is developing a Spanish-language version of "The Books of the Bible" using the Nueva Versión Internacional entitled "Los Libros de la Biblia". Zondervan is planning to release a trade edition of "The Books of the Bible" in the fall of 2012. In its 2007 "Bible and Bible Reference Survey," "Preaching.com" called "The Books of The Bible" "one of the most interesting [Bibles published] this year," and predicted that the format changes would "aid reading and seeing the more natural divisions in the text which are often obscured by the chapter and verse divisions." A review in the journal Themelios