Common Misconceptions About the Canon and Canonicity

The idea that the canon was decided and at the council of Nicaea under the pressure of Constantine right so politically motivated kind of thing. The narrative runs something like this for the first few centuries of the faith no no Christians knew what to read everybody was reading their own books. Only in the fourth century Constantine with his political pressure decided you know what we really need a canon so I'm gonna force my own to unify my empire. Exactly they're construed as a purely human construction a purely political event it's exercise of powerYeah it's viewed as something that it is part of any human culture of course humans are going to pick you know some standard they prefer. It's no different when it