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Constantine's Bible

Politics and the Making of the New Testament

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
  • 14.1 x 21.9 x 1.3 cm

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Most college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. Now David Dungan re-examines the primary source for this history, the Ecclesiastical History of the fourth-century Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, in the light of Hellenistic political thought. He reaches startling new conclusions: that we usually use the term "canon" incorrectly; that the legal imposition of a "canon" or "rule" upon scripture was a fourth- and fifth-century phenomenon enforced with the power of the Roman imperial government; that the forces shaping the New Testament canon are much earlier than the second-century crisis occasioned by Marcion, and that they are political forces.Dungan discusses how the scripture selection process worked, book-by-book, as he examines the criteria used-and not used-to make these decisions. Finally he describes the consequences of the emperor Constantine's tremendous achievement in transforming orthodox, Catholic Christianity into imperial Christianity.

  • Title

    Constantine's Bible

  • Author

    David L Dungan

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Augsburg Fortress Publishers

  • Published

    October 2006

  • Weight

    287g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    14.1 x 21.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780800637903

  • ISBN-10

    0800637909

  • Eden Code

    4066813

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