~/canon-circleThe problem all three must survive. Sola scriptura requires a list, and the list is not in the list: no biblical book names the canon. That list was fixed by the church over roughly three centuries. If the church's judgment was reliable enough to settle the table of contents, on what grounds is it unreliable elsewhere? And if it was not reliable, what grounds confidence in the table of contents?
~/historiographyBrackets confessional stakes. Treats canon-formation as one instance of a general pattern: reference sets of any kind — legal codes, scientific results, canons — stabilize through iterated citation, use, and downstream dependency, not through a single certifying act. The question is not whether this describes revelation correctly but whether it describes formation correctly, which is checkable independently of theology.
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