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Canonical books

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See Canonical.
those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; - called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal.

See also: Book canonic



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This group of pious men became known as the Apostolic Fathers and their writings, while not on the same status as the canonical books of the Old and New Testament, were still regarded with great respect by their contemporaries and their successors within the Christian movement.
The gospels are four canonical books that provide a complete overview of Jesus and all of his teachings.
Matera claims that in this manifest diversity there is also a certain unity, because all the canonical books, whatever their differences, have a common underlying narrative about the meaning of Israel, Jesus, and the community called church.
 
 
 
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