tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974528.post5001064464172072805..comments2023-06-20T11:16:33.611-04:00Comments on on the temple doorstep: the OT canonabuianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14177125847519190290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974528.post-91433724130683160472007-03-29T19:39:00.000-04:002007-03-29T19:39:00.000-04:00Good point. And I think I actually did recognize t...Good point. And I think I actually did recognize that distinction when I wrote the paper. In fact, as I recall, I came away from the project with the idea that Protestants would be better off reading the Apocrypha, at least now and then. Not that it meets the Protestant requirements for Scripture, but it is of value nonetheless.abuianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14177125847519190290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974528.post-59323094991537240352007-03-29T17:25:00.000-04:002007-03-29T17:25:00.000-04:00Cardinal Cajetan listed [the Apocrypha] as non-can...<I>Cardinal Cajetan listed [the Apocrypha] as non-canonical in the sense of serving as a basis for faith but canonical only in the sense that they do edify.</I><BR/><BR/>This is the usual Anglican stance. Selections from the Apocrypha are included in both the Eucharistic Lectionary and the Daily Office Lectionary. The two canticles from the Song of the Three Young Men (canticles 7 and 8 in the Byzantine psalter) are even recited regularly at Morning Prayer. But these books are not used as a basis for establishing doctrine. Article 6 of the 39 Articles of Religion attributes this approach to Jerome.<BR/><BR/>I think the English Reformers, like Jerome and Cardinal Cajetan, were implicitly aware that the matter of OT canonicity is entangled with the question of the purpose for establishing a canon, or to what use the canon is to be put. If one is reading the OT as the Fathers did, looking to find Jesus there, one can maintain a relaxed standard of canonicity. But if one is to use the canon as an authoritative basis for rationalistic debates about doctrine, as was increasingly the case in the West, then it is reasonable to set a higher bar for admission to the canon.<BR/><BR/>So the first question is: <I>How is one to read the OT?</I><BR/><BR/>Another problem for Evangelicals involves translation. Last night one of our fellow HC parishioners suggested that much of Western error can be traced to Jerome's inadequate translations of key theological terms in the NT. Treating scripture primarily as a library of authoritative proof texts to be interpreted by reason is probably not consistent with the scriptures as we must now read them, 20 to 30 centuries after they were written in languages and cultural milieux not our own.Arimatheanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06783088995172601340noreply@blogger.com