2007 Christian Canon Conference

An international conference has been called for the purpose of standardizing the Christian canon.Congratulations--you have been invited to attend the conference as a delegate!

What texts do you propose removing from the canon?

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What texts not in the canon do you propose adding to it?

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What texts do you propose regarding as apocryphal?

For reference, here is a list of all texts used in Christian canons worldwide (University of Pennsylvania).Faith and Belief, please.

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ArcherAll species are transitional.

Thread moved here from the Proposed New Topics forum.

The link you gave appears to be incomplete. For example 3&4 Ezra, Enoch, Jubilees, Clement, Didascalia or the Books of the Covenant are not mentioned.Should they be considered since they are already included in the Ethiopian Christian Canon?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Thanks for pointing that out, jar. Yes, let's put everything on the table.The task of the conference is to come up with a standard canon to benefit all of Christendom as it enters its third millennium.The final vote, of course, will never be taken. The idea of this thread is to give you a chance to say what texts you think Christians would do well to toss, what texts you think they would do well to pay much more attention to, and what texts you recommend as supplemental reading (apocrypha).No one has to propose a complete canon, though you're welcome to do so if you want. The conference just invites your nominations. We want to know which texts strike you as particularly revelatory and beneficial for Christians to read and which do not. If you have a strong feeling of thumbs-up or thumbs-down either way, now's the time to be heard.This is an ecumenicaal conference, BTW. People of all faiths, or none, may participate.___Edited by Archer Opterix, : typo.

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ArcherAll species are transitional.

To the standard Protestant Bible I'd like to add the 7 books of the Catholic apocrypha. I'd also add 1 Enoch, 2 Esdras, and the Wisdom of Solomon.Second, I'd propose rejecting the idea of a closed canon and allowing every church to determine their own canon within limits established by consultation with other churches.

I'd put all the books of the New Testament into the Apocrypha except for the Synoptic Gospels, Acts, and 1 Corinthians 13. Maybe keep Hebrews for the theological content.Clearing out the epistles out gives you space to add things. Prayers by the great mystics. I'd want to include writings from other faiths as long as they complement the Christian setting. Excerpts from the Upanishads and Gita could be included as well as the Tao Te Ching in its entirety. Poems by Blake, Eliot, Oliver, many more.The collection would contain a lot more poetry and less argument than the NT does now. That would be healthier for everybody.The Hebrew Scriptures would get a book-by-book trim to eliminate duplicate passages and correct obvious dislocations of text. I'd pull pull Psalm 151 and a couple of Maccabean books out of the Apocrypha and put Chronicles and Daniel in.It would be good to add writings by Anne Frank, along with stories by Singer and writings by Isaac Luria and Maimonides. These ideas would have to be coordinated, though, with the 5767 Jewish Canon Conference. ___Edited by Archer Opterix, : increased inerrancy.

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ArcherAll species are transitional.