{"product_id":"the-question-of-canon-challenging-the-status-quo-in-the-new-testament-debate-9780830840311","title":"The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreaching\u003c\/i\u003e Survey of the Year's Best Books for Preachers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreaching\u003c\/i\u003e's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDid the New Testament canon arise naturally from within the early Christian faith? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWere the books \u003ci\u003ewritten\u003c\/i\u003e as Scripture, or did they \u003ci\u003ebecome\u003c\/i\u003e Scripture by a decision of the second-century church?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy did early Christians have a canon at all?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the types of questions that led Michael J. Kruger to pick apart modern scholarship's dominant view that the New Testament is a late creation of the church imposed on books originally written for another purpose. Calling into question this commonly held \"extrinsic\" view, Kruger here tackles the five most prevalent objections to the classic understanding of a quickly emerging, self-authenticating collection of authoritative scriptures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready a noted author on the subject of the New Testament canon, Kruger addresses foundational and paradigmatic assumptions of the extrinsic model as he provides powerful rebuttals and further support for the classic, \"intrinsic\" view. This framework recognizes the canon as the product of internal forces evolving out of the historical essence of Christianity, not a development retroactively imposed by the church upon books written hundreds of years before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike many books written on the emergence of the New Testament canon that ask \"when?\" or \"how?\" Kruger focuses this work on the \"why?\"--exposing weaknesses in the five major tenets of the extrinsic model as he goes. While \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Canon\u003c\/i\u003e scrutinizes today's popular scholastic view, it also offers an alternative concept to lay a better empirical foundation for biblical canon studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael J. Kruger (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is president and professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eCanon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Heresy of Orthodoxy \u003c\/i\u003e (coauthored with Andreas Köstenberger). Together with Charles E. Hill he edited \u003ci\u003eThe Early Text of the New Testament\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"IVP Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50675075285266,"sku":"9780830840311","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_159e922d-9f09-41c6-821d-a44e9e541f7c.jpg?v=1733871340","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-question-of-canon-challenging-the-status-quo-in-the-new-testament-debate-9780830840311","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}