{"product_id":"constantines-bible-politics-and-the-making-of-the-new-testament-0800637909","title":"Constantines Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0800637909\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dungan, David L.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. Now David Dungan re-examines the primary source for this history, the Ecclesiastical History of the fourth-century Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, in the light of Hellenistic political thought. He reaches startling new conclusions: that we usually use the term \"canon\" incorrectly; that the legal imposition of a \"canon\" or \"rule\" upon scripture was a fourth- and fifth-century phenomenon enforced with the power of the Roman imperial government; that the forces shaping the New Testament canon are much earlier than the second-century crisis occasioned by Marcion, and that they are political forces.Dungan discusses how the scripture selection process worked, book-by-book, as he examines the criteria usedand not usedto make these decisions. Finally he describes the consequences of the emperor Constantines tremendous achievement in transforming orthodox, Catholic Christianity into imperial Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52235183292704,"sku":"NEW0800637909","price":41.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/712aR32PJZL.jpg?v=1787459158","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/constantines-bible-politics-and-the-making-of-the-new-testament-0800637909","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}