{"product_id":"constantines-bible-politics-and-the-making-of-the-new-testament-9780800637903","title":"Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David L. Dungan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Augsburg Fortress Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christianity - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost 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 Christianity into imperial Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Augsburg Fortress Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780994646167,"sku":"9780800637903","price":1881.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780800637903.webp?v=1778049754","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/constantines-bible-politics-and-the-making-of-the-new-testament-9780800637903","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}