Biblical canon Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Eastern canons==== The Eastern Churches had, in general, a weaker feeling than those in the West for the necessity of making sharp delineations with regard to the canon. They were more conscious of the gradation of spiritual quality among the books that they accepted (for example, the classification of Eusebius, see also [[Antilegomena]]) and were less often disposed to assert that the books which they rejected possessed no spiritual quality at all. For example, the [[Quinisext Council|Trullan Synod of 691β692]], which [[Pope Sergius I]] (in office 687β701) rejected<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Ekonomou |author-first= Andrew J. |year=2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zomZk6DbFTIC&pg=PA222 |title=Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0-73911977-8 |page=222}}</ref> (see also [[Pentarchy]]), endorsed the following lists of canonical writings: the [[Canons of the Apostles|Apostolic Canons]] (c. 385), the [[Synod of Laodicea]] (c. 363), the [[Council of Carthage (397)|Third Synod of Carthage]] (c. 397), and the [[Easter letter|39th Festal Letter of Athanasius]] (367).<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3814.htm |chapter=Council in Trullo |title=Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 14 |editor-last1=Schaff |editor-first1=Philip |editor-last2=Wace |editor-first2=Henry }}</ref> And yet, these lists do not agree. Similarly, the New Testament canons of the [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac]], [[Armenian Apostolic Church|Armenian]], [[Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria|Egyptian Coptic]] and [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church|Ethiopian]] Churches all have minor differences, yet five of these Churches are part of the [[Oriental Orthodoxy|same communion]] and hold the same theological beliefs.{{sfnp|Metzger|1997}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page