Farmer, William R. Additional Author mixed material bibliography New York Paulist Press 1983 monographic en English

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The Formation of the New Testament Canon: An Ecumenical Approach represents the collaboration of two excel lent scholars, one an expert on the New Testament and the other on the Fathers of the early Church. This is an important attempt to wrestle with and understand the complex problems involved in the growth of the New Testament as sacred to the Christian com munity, as the authors throw valuable new light on one of the central elements in the Church's self-awareness. The two essays both describe the formation of the New Testa ment Canon, their difference in perspective reveals the different interests and special expertise of their authors. Fr. Farkasfalvy, a Roman Catholic expert on patristic and medieval exegesis, focuses on the doctrinal roots of the understanding of the New Testament in the writings of Irenaeus, the important Church Father of the late second century. Professor Farmer, a United Methodist specialist in New Testament studies, highlights the ecclesiastical needs which were met when a collection of early Christian writings became distinguished by their special authority in the Church. Together they make a valuable contribution to "canon criticism" which calls for collaboration between biblical and patristic scholars. They also provide a model of the fruit fulness of ecumenical collaboration in theological research. Fr. Denis Farkasfalvy was born in Hungary in 1936 and since 1962 has been a member of the new Cistercian community founded by Hungarian monks in Irving, Texas. Adjunct professor of theology at the University of Dallas since 1969 he has written on St. Bernard. St. Irenaeus, and the early history of the New Testa ment Canon, and he has recently published a new Hungarian translation of the Psalms Prof. William R. Farmer was born in 1991 and has been of the faculty of Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University since 1959. He is a well known New Testament scholar particularly acclaimed for his studies on the Synoptic problem in the Gospels and the Jewish historical background to the N Testamem 225.120809124955 Perpustakaan STTB Bandung Theological Seminary 225.12 Far f E08001564 Non Fiction 225.12 Far f Formation_of_the_New_Testament_Canon.jpg 54922 2014-12-15 09:59:10 2025-03-07 17:22:58 machine generated