Scripture From the Second to the Seventeenth Century

Scripture from the Second to the Seventeenth Century

Early Challenges (Marcion, the Gnostics, etc.)
were Met with Response from Scripture, and
(When Scripture Itself was Contested) with an
Appeal to Early Tradition and Good Exegesis

We must now compress a very long and complicated story – the story of how the church lived with scripture for seventeen hundred years – into a very short account, highlighting only those things which appear immediately relevant to our present study...