~/christian-local-questionThe canon-circle is genuine but local to Christian disputes about the church and the New Testament. Treating it as the universal problem of scriptural authority hides older Jewish questions: how inherited Torah, interpretive tradition, legal procedure, and communal practice authorize one another without requiring either scripture-alone or an infallible ecclesial list.
~/fallible-collectionBite the bullet. The canon is a historical judgment held at high but not infallible confidence, and that suffices. Certainty about the list was never promised; sufficiency of the books was. The price is conceding that the Protestant norm rests on a process Protestantism does not itself authorize.
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