04385cam a2200301I  4500001001300000003000600013005001700019008004100036010001700077035001900094040005600113050002100169082001000190100003900200245009700239250001200336260005100348300001900399504003300418505077200451505046101223505065101684505086902335505065303204630002503857630002403882776017703906ocm02422359 OCoLC20230830120731.0760910s1881    enk           000 0 eng    a   32025192   a(OCoLC)2422359  aDLCcKENdOCLdOCLCQdOCLCGdWY@dKRTASdEUMdZAAPA00aBS2320b.W5 1881 4a225.11 aWestcott, Brooke Foss,d1825-1901.12aA general survey of the history of the canon of the New Testament,cby Brooke Foss Westcott.  a7th ed.  aCambridge,aLondon,bMacmillan and co.,c1896.  a605 p.c19 cm.  aIncluding: Indexes p595 -605  aA general view of the difficulties which affected the formation and proof of the Canon -- First period: The Age of the Apostolic Fathers: 
The relation of the Apostolic Fathers to the teaching of the Apostles: Clement of Rome; Ignatius; Polycarp; Barnabas -- The relation of the Apostolic Fathers to the Canon of the New Testament -- The Age of the Greek Apologists A.D. 120-170: The wide range of Christian literature during this period: Justin Martyr; Papias; Quadratus and Aristides; The letter to Diognetus -- The Jewish Apologists: The dialogue of Jason and Papiscus: Aristo of Pella its supposed author -- Agrippa Castor --Dionysius of Corinth and Pinytus;  Hermas;  Hegesippus;  The Muratorion Fragment: Melito - Claudius Apollinaris;  Theophilus;  Athenagoras  aThe early versions of the New Testament: The Peshito;  The Old Latin Version
The early Heretics: Simon Magus;  Menander and Cerinthus ;  The Ophites and Ebionites; Basilides and Isidorus; Carpocrates; Valentinus; Heracleon; Ptolemaeus -- The Marcosians: Marcion;  Tatian
The second period. A.D. 170-303: The canon of the acknowledged books: Irenaeus (Churches of Vienne and Lyons); Pantaenus, Clement (Alexandrine Church);  Tertullian (The African Church)
  aThe testimony of the churches to the disputed books: The Alexandrian church: Clement; Origen; Dionysius -- The Latin Churches of Africa -- The Church of Rome: Minucius Felix; Novatus; Dionysius; Caius; Hippolytus -- The Churches of Asia Minor: Ephesus: Polycrates; Apollonius -- Smyrna: Irenaeus;  Neo-Caesarea: Pontus; Gregory; Firmilian; Methodius -- The Churches of Syria: Antioch: Theophilus; Serapion; Paul of Samosata; Malchion; Dorotheus and Lucian -- Caesarea: Pamphilus
The testimony of heretical and apocryphal writings: Montanism; Manichaism; The Sibylline Oracles; Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; Heathen writers: Celsus, Porhyry  aThe age of Diocletian: The persecution of Diocletian directed against the Christian books;  In Africa: The Donatists; In Syria: Eusebius
The age of councils: Constantine's zeal for Holy Scripture -- Synods which followed this council: The Synod of Laodicea;  The third Council of Carthage: Antioch. Chrysostom. Theodore of Mopsuestia; Theodoret; Nisibis: Junilius, Ebed Jesu; Edessa: Ephrem Syrus; Johannes Damascenus -- The churches of Asia Minor: Gregory of Nazianzus, Amphilochius;  Gregory of Nyssa and Basil; Andrew and and Arethas -- The Church of Jerusalem: Cyril, Epiphanius -- The Church of Alexandria: Athanasius, Cyrukm Isidore, Didymus, Cosmas, , Euthalius, Pseudo-Dionysius -- The Church of Constantinople: Cassian; Leontius, Nicephorus, Photius, Oecumenius; Theophylact -- De mediaeval view of the Canon: Alfric, Hugo of St. Victor, John of Salisbury  aThe sixteenth century: Various elements combined in the discussions on the Bible: The Roman Church: Cardinal Ximenes, Erasmus, Cardinal Gaitan, Catharinus; the council of Trent; Sixtus Senensis -- The Saxon school of Reformers: Luther, Karlstadt -- The Swiss School of Reformers: Zwingli (Ecolampadius) Calvin, Beza. The Reformed Confessions -- The Swiss Decleration of 1675 -- The Arminian School: Grotius -- The English Church: Tydale; Jewel; Bullinger;  Whitaker; Fulke                                                                                                                                                                                00aBible.pN.T.xCanon.04aBible.pN.TxCanon.08iprinted versionaWestcott, Brooke Foss, 1825-1901.tGeneral survey of the history of the canon of the New Testament.b7th ed.dCambridge, London, Macmillan and co., 1896w