ArchivedWhat really happened at the council of Nicea?kesuramoni wrote:Aineo wrote:Any Catholic can give you a list of councils where a list of books to be read in the church are found. The Catholic Church council that established the Catholic Church canon as the official canon of the Catholic Church was the Council of Trent in the 16th century after the Reformation was well beyond the Catholic Church's ability to stop it.
..now im confused I dont want a Catholic anything, I just want to know how the books of the Bible (specifically the New Testament) were chosen to be put in the Bible, and if the people that decided on what books to put in, fought over it instead of praying, etc.
The decision of what books were to be included in the Catholic canon was determined by the Council of Trent in the 16th century. Prior to this council lists were published and retained by other councils, however Jerome and St. Augustine among others disagreed as to what books were canon even after the 1st Council of Nicea.
You can do an Internet search using development + canon new testament and get the information you are looking for. For example:
C. AD 400:
Jerome translates the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (called the "Vulgate"). He knows that the Jews have only 39 books, and he wants to limit the OT to these; the 7 he would leave out (Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach [or "Ecclesiasticus"], and Baruch--he calls "apocrypha," that is, "hidden books." But Pope Damasus wants all 46 traditionally-used books included in the OT, so the Vulgate has 46.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/a/canon.html
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