A General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament
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Overview
In A General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament, Brooke Foss Westcott gives an overview of the New Testament on purely historical grounds, not considering the separate books individually, but “as claiming to be parts of the apostolic heritage of Christians.” Westcott connects “the history of the New Testament canon with the growth and consolidation of the Catholic Church,” highlighting “the relation existing between the amount of evidence for the authenticity of its component parts and the whole mass of Christian literature.”
- Title: A General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Edition: SEVENTH EDITION
- Publishers: Macmillan and Co., Macmillan Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1896
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 605
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Canon
- Resource ID: LLS:GNRLSRVYNTSTMNT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-02-15T15:55:19Z
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) was a British bishop, biblical scholar, and theologian serving as bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death.
Westcott studied at Trinity College in Cambridge where he graduated in 1848. He stayed at Trinity, where in 1849 he obtained his fellowship and was ordained deacon and priest. He received honorary degrees from Oxford in 1881 and Edinburgh 1883. In 1890, he became the bishop of Durham.
He has authored several works, including Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek, A General View of the History of the English Bible, Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians.