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082 _bM479-L48
100 _aMcDonald, Lee Martin
100 _d1942-
100 _eAuthor
245 _aForgotten Scriptures
245 _bThe Selection and Rejection of Early Religious Writings
245 _cLee Martin McDonald
260 _aU.S.A.
260 _bWestminster John Knox Press
260 _c2009
300 _a313tr.
300 _bPaperback, illustration
300 _c23 cm
520 _aWe know that the early Christian church had a variety of scriptures and other source material that informed their faith and shaped their thinking. We also know that after a few centuries the church decided to keep the twenty-seven books of our present New Testament and to treat them as canonical in faith and practice. But the other books did not simply disappear. In fact, many of them remain valuable for understanding the diversity of the early Christian church and the astounding claims of faith on which the church was founded. Learning about these ancient documents need not threaten the church's current orthodoxy and authority
650 _aBible -- Canon
650 _aApocryphal books -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
856 4 _uhttps://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14874/519pnywrrol-sl1400.jpg
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911 _aHuỳnh Thị Ngọc Bích
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