Eastern Biblical Canon

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I’m a Latin rite Catholic and am wondering something about the Eastern Catholic Churches. I know that the Eastern, Syrian, and Ethiopian Orthodox Churches recognize books of the Bible which Catholics did not recognize as canonical at the Council of Trent, and I was wondering if that is also the case for Eastern Catholics.

I’m particularly interested to find out if the Ethiopian Catholic Church recognizes the book of Enoch (because of its controversial content).
 
The Council of Trent says (essentially in response to the protestants):
“And it has thought it meet that a list of the sacred books be inserted in this decree, lest a doubt may arise in any one’s mind, which are the books that are received by this Synod. They are as set down here below: …]”
Source: thecounciloftrent.com/ch4.htm

It would seem to me that it did not close the canon but rather made it clear the the books thrown out by the protestants are to be considered Scripture. 🙂
 
I agree with the books I have in my Catholic Bible is plenty to keep me busy. Enoch is Old Testament and did not go past 200 A.D. for the Jewish faith, if I am still correct. It is not as bad as the Gnostic books (that were never considered). See Saint Irenaeus, was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, The Catholic Cannon is CLOSED. Those other churches can add or subtract any books they want. Don’t drift off the road, for it is narrow that leads to God.
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Adam3 said:
I agree with the books I have in my Catholic Bible is plenty to keep me busy. Enoch is Old Testament and did not go past 200 A.D. for the Jewish faith, if I am still correct. It is not as bad as the Gnostic books (that were never considered). See Saint Irenaeus, was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, The Catholic Cannon is CLOSED. Those other churches can add or subtract any books they want. Don’t drift off the road, for it is narrow that leads to God.
May God Bless
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The sui iuris Latin Church has its own Canon of Scripture. Other sui iuris Churches may have their own Canon of Scripture.
 
Adam3 said:
See Saint Irenaeus, was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, The Catholic Cannon is CLOSED.
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Could you provide a quote that is not about the number of gospels? I’m genuinely interested in this issue, and I don’t read Trent as explicitly closing the canon.
 
Adam3 said:
I agree with the books I have in my Catholic Bible is plenty to keep me busy. Enoch is Old Testament and did not go past 200 A.D. for the Jewish faith, if I am still correct. It is not as bad as the Gnostic books (that were never considered). See Saint Irenaeus, was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, The Catholic Cannon is CLOSED. Those other churches can add or subtract any books they want. Don’t drift off the road, for it is narrow that leads to God.
May God Bless
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Why the CAPS? Are you mad at us? :confused:
 
I’m not so much wondering about whether or not sui iuris churches are allowed to have books other than those specifically mentioned at Trent. I’m wondering it they do.
 
sitbunnynow said:
I’m not so much wondering about whether or not sui iuris churches are allowed to have books other than those specifically mentioned at Trent. I’m wondering it they do.
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I’m not aware of any. The Ruthenian Church uses the same Bible (New American Bible) translation as the Latin Rite Church uses. No extra books that I’ve ever seen.

I continue to believe that most people confuse the Eastern Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox.
 
The Byzantine Rite Churches use the Prayer of Manasseh for the service of Great Compline. You can also find it in the Melkite, Publican’s Prayer Book. 🙂
 
theistgal said:
I’m not aware of any. The Ruthenian Church uses the same Bible (New American Bible) translation as the Latin Rite Church uses. No extra books that I’ve ever seen.

I continue to believe that most people confuse the Eastern Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox.
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Not quite correct.

The Ruthenian Metropolia uses the 1970 NAB for the lections and gospels, the grail psalter for the psalms, and an unspecified translation for the prayer of Mannasseh, which said prayer does not occur in the NAB.

Further, while the lectionary for the Metropolia is using the 1970 NAB, but the NAB has been revised since. Repeatedly. And causing much consternation for many.

The NAB was revised in 1986, revised again in 1991, and an even newer edition, the NABRE, was released in 2011.

New Roman lectionaries for the US are supposed to be the NABRE except for the psalms, which are to be the Grail Psalter versions.

If you go buy a recent NAB, it will not match the lectionary text.
 
Zekariya said:
The Council of Trent says (essentially in response to the protestants):
“And it has thought it meet that a list of the sacred books be inserted in this decree, lest a doubt may arise in any one’s mind, which are the books that are received by this Synod. They are as set down here below: …]”
Source: thecounciloftrent.com/ch4.htm

It would seem to me that it did not close the canon but rather made it clear the the books thrown out by the protestants are to be considered Scripture. 🙂
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Agreed. The canon of Scripture is not closed. However, if any more books were to be added to it (as a sort of tertiary-canon) they would have to be demonstrated to have always been used as Scripture by the Church. It seems to me that the Prayer of Manasseh which you mentioned in another post, because it has (I think) been used liturgically as though it were Scripture by some Catholic churches since long before Trent, has a chance of someday being deemed canonical by the Extraordinary Magisterium. However I don’t think this will happen for the forseeable future because of the confusion it would cause in the West, both among Catholics who think the canon is closed and among Protestants who would say that we were adding another book to the Bible.
 
sitbunnynow said:
I know that the Eastern, Syrian, and Ethiopian Orthodox Churches recognize books of the Bible which Catholics did not recognize as canonical at the Council of Trent, and I was wondering if that is also the case for Eastern Catholics.
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What books have the Syriac Churches recognized that Trent did not?
 
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