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 ...

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 ...

“Canon lists” are sometimes regarded as an independent subgenre that may be usefully analyzed in isolation from their literary and rhetorical contexts. This mode of analysis is epitomized in the ...

The canon of Scripture refers to the authoritative list of books that comprise the Bible (canon is Greek for rule or standard). Protestants have historically believed that the 66 books in the Bible ...

When television documentaries ex­plore Christianity, they have little difficulty finding diverse manifestations of faith and practice from around the world. A global survey also reveals a surprising, ...

Martin Luther has many claims to fame. In recent years I have found him useful in an unexpected way: as a guide to understanding emerging Afri­can Christianity. Here is my unscientific rule: if Martin ...