Apostolic Canons
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The Apostolic Canons,
These eighty-five canons were approved by the
The document contains a list of canonical books.
Content
They deal mostly with the office and duties of a Christian
The last of these decrees contains a very important list or canon of the Holy Scriptures.[1]: canon 85
Most modern critics agree that they could not have been composed before the
Authorship
The original Greek text claims the Apostolic Canons are the very legislation of the
Author
The author seems to be from
Date
Scholars agree that genuine composition by the Apostles is "quite false and untenable". While some, like Beveridge and Hefele, believe they were written around the late 2nd to early 3rd century, most believe they could not have been written before the Council of Antioch in 341, since around twenty of those canons are quoted, or even later around the end of the 4th century since they "certainly" post-date the Apostolic Constitutions.[1]
Von Funk, a foremost authority on the Apostolic Canons and all similar early canonical texts, locates the composition of the Apostolic Canons in the 5th century, seeing two editions a shorter 50 canon list, and a longer 85 canon list composed later in the 6th century, where it was quoted by Severus of Antioch.[1][10]
Reception
There is some controversy over the number of these canons. In the Apostolic Constitutions, the Apostolic Canons are eighty-five (occasionally eighty-four, a variant in the Manuscripts that arises from the occasional counting of two canons as one). In the latter half of the 6th century,
On the other hand, the
Nevertheless, from their first appearance in the West they aroused suspicion. Canon 46 for example, that rejected all heretical baptism, was notoriously opposed to Roman and Western practice. In the so-called
Influence
The influence of the Apostolic Canons was greatly increased by the various versions of them soon current in the
Notes
- ^ Patrologia Latina. Vol. LXVII. pp. 9 sq.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Shahan, Thomas Joseph (1908). . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3.
- OCLC 815276580.
- ^ "Carolingian Canon Law Project". ccl.rch.uky.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ^ "THE ECCLESIASTICAL CANONS OF THE SAME HOLY APOSTLES". Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries. Vol. VII. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- OCLC 856076162.
- ISBN 978-1-935317-16-6.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-504652-8. — T. 1, P. 141
- ^ Canons, Apostolic, 1910 New Catholic Dictionary, accessed 16 April 2016.
- ^ a b . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 02 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 201.
- ^ "Apostolic Canons". Catholic Answers. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
- ^ Shahan, Thomas Joseph (1908). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company. which adds: for the Western references in the early Middle Ages see Von Funk, Franz X. Didascalia. Vol. II. pp. 40–50. and for their insertion in the early Western collections of canons, see Maassen, Friedrich (1872). Gesch. der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts im Abendlande. Gratz. pp. 438–40.
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