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Confederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Bible

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0004, 20th April, 2011
It was John Hobbins’ posts that first made me aware of the idea of functional canonicity. That is, regardless of what a group says is their canon, more practically important is what they use as canonical. In this sense, we could say that the Apostles’ Creed is canonical for most Christians. We could say that [...]
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a ring of little russian dolls in the canon

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2006, 14th December, 2009
You’ve all, I hope, seen those little Russian dolls, where each doll contains within itself a somewhat littler Russian doll.  It occurred to me that the disputes about the canon of scripture are rather similar. Related Posts:beyond the canon listConfederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Biblerobinson and pierpont, collated against the kjv, post 8maurice [...]
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beyond the canon list

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0138, 7th December, 2009
It would be nice to say that once we’ve got Jesus and the canon settled, that’s the end of the story. And it would be partially true. If you read the books of the Bible, no matter what translation they are in (unless it is by some sort of weird group purposefully altering the text), [...]
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