I believe Tenney must have also mentioned that the canon was confirmed at a church council - this point stuck in my head for years and many people have echoed this belief over the years. In fact, the exact list of NT documents was confirmed at the third Synod of Carthage (397 AD), bu...
They bring to mindTomoko Masuza-wa’sobservation that“the modern discourse onreligion andreligions wasfrom thevery beginning (...)adiscourse of secularization; at the same time, itwas clearlyadiscourse of othering”(Masuzawa2005,20). Masuzawa hasshown how the languageofreligious studies ...