What is it about?
This article explains how the New Testament was formed and how it is connected to early Christian beliefs. Early Christians believed in God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This belief was from early on called the “Rule of Faith,” and it described the basic ideas of Christianity. Important early Christian writings, such as the Gospel of John and the letters of Paul, were widely accepted as Scripture as they matched these core beliefs. The article looks at how the Rule of Faith is closely related to key parts of the New Testament, like the four Gospels and Paul’s letters, and how it affected these texts being treated as a collection. It shows that there is a strong connection between these beliefs and the shaping of the New Testament writings, including some newly discovered numerical patterns.
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Why is it important?
It explains in an up-to-date way how the New Testament was formed,
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The Rule of Faith, the early Christian belief in the triune God, is often neglected in discussions on the formation of the New Testament. This article emphasises the close connection between basic Christian beliefs and the formation of Christian Scripture. The numerical aspects involved have not been treated by previous scholarship, so that is new.
Tomas Bokedal
NLA Hogskolen
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This page is a summary of: The Rule of Faith and the Formation of the New Testament Canon, March 2026, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751071_006.
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