The rule of faith for Protestants is sola Scriptura. This belief holds that only Scripture is a final, infallible authority for the Christian: thus excluding the Church and Sacred Tradition as equally ...

The existing canons of the Council of Nicaea show that no Biblical canon was determined. While at least one Church Father, St. Jerome, noted that one book was determined to be Scripture at the council ...

Do we know which books are inspired and belong in the Bible simply by reading them? Are all the biblical books self-attesting, so that no church is needed to determine the biblical canon? This is what ...

Debates over what constitutes the American literary canon—and whether Bible excerpts should be a part of it—erupted on ...

Some early Christian writings describe Jesus as having an identical twin. The figure appears in texts that circulated widely before the biblical canon settled. That claim introduces a problem few ...

difficulty finding diverse manifestations of faith and practice. A global survey also reveals a surprising diversity when it comes to the content of the Bible. Since 1900, the Christian Century has ...

Constantine’s act of “calling himself a Christian and pouring in that flood of wealth and power on the church,” John Wesley charged in 1787, “was productive of more evil to the church than all the ten ...