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SUMMARY OF CHAPTER II: CANON

It is by looking back at the story of how the books came to be accepted and used that we can understand why there are just sixty- six in the canon of Scripture. It was a gradual process both in the case of the Old Testament and of the New. Some of the books were read more widely and valued more highly than others. By producing a list of accepted books, the church arrived at a unity about them, which has been accepted ever since. But there is a distinction between a formal canon and the canon in use, even if the church holds to the principle of sola scriptura.