{"product_id":"constantines-bible-257291","title":"Constantine's Bible","description":"Most 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 used-and not used-to make these decisions. Finally he describes the consequences of the emperor Constantine's tremendous achievement in transforming orthodox, Catholic C","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51564561793311,"sku":"9780800637903","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780800637903_74496.jpg?v=1769204859","url":"https:\/\/koorong.com\/products\/constantines-bible-257291","provider":"Koorong","version":"1.0","type":"link"}