The Question of Canon
Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate

Whilst this book was not quite what I was expecting, I greatly enjoyed it even though it is, academically speaking, a level above what I would currently read. In this book Michael Kruger seems to go against the flow of the dominant discourse of the extrinsic model of canon formation, and instead hol......more

A thorough challenge to a view of the canon that holds it was a late, even 4th century product of the newly enshrined Orthodox Church. Instead, Kruger argues that the early church expected and welcomed its own Scripture at a much earlier date and that before the end of the 2nd century most of the NT......more

2021 reads: #51 Rating: 4.5 Stars Although, at times, quite technical and academic, Michael Kruger has given us a great defense of the reality that Canon formation was part of the DNA of early Christianity. The New Covenant anticipated written documents, the early church embraced texts, and the apostl......more

A great, quick little read arguing for the existence of a New Testament canon growing naturally out of the first century instead of being superimposed backward in the fourth century. I’ll be sure to revisit this for the references and specific chapters as questions arise.......more

This is a comprehensive book on the issues regarding the New Testament canon. Kruger takes on the academic debate by examining the historical data for the founding of the canon not being dependent upon man. He does so by looking at the intrinsic and extrinsic models of the the canon and allowing it......more