arts of it were written about 300 BC -Old testament stuffI tried but, I don’t see a chat button for Pope Francis.
I already did send this question for to a different “Catholic Answers”. I was told to wait two or, three days and then never heard a word. I understand canon is canon with the understanding it’s the Vatican’s call. But that is where some extra can leak in play by means of inclusion. An example would be Byzantine Rite Catholics have St. Uriel listed as an archangel. We are all in communion. If I decide tomorrow to become a Byzantine Rite Catholic that wouldn’t be a sin.The official explanation im sure will be something along the lines of “the holy spirit guided the process of selecting the Canon” but as a historian I there was quite a bit of politic surrounding the meetings selecting the Canon.
Not sure where you got that number. There are approximately 45 million Ethiopian Orthodox Christians.There are about 500,000 Catholics in ethiopia and about 27 million members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church - the Book of Enoch is in the canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox-why not
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Who knows, he might call you!I tried but, I don’t see a chat button for Pope Francis.
ORLY? quoted from vatican.va/news_services/press/sinodo/documents/bollettino_22_xii-ordinaria-2008/02_inglese/b14_02.html" The Word of God was the source of Ethiopic Literature. The Bible was translated into Ethiopic between the 4th and the 6th century AD. 2) Some books are preserved in their entirety only in Classical Ethiopic and parts of the Ethiopian Biblical Canon are precious for biblical scholarship; The Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees are important works for understanding the context of Second Temple Judaism, Qumran and the origins of Christianity. They are also significant for the study of apocalyptic literature. 3) The Ethiopian Bible society is doing a lot for the translation of the Bible in local and regional languages (inc1uding cassettes, CDs, a device called “Proclaimer” which works even with solar energy); The Board Members of the Bible Society are 24: 8 from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, 8 from the Catholic Church and 8 from the Evangelical Church. This is a good example for Ecumenical cooperation. The President of the Board, at the moment, is Catholic." Also quoted from ecs.org.et/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175&Itemid=87" The Ethiopian Catholic Church is especially close to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, whose doctrine and liturgical tradition she shares. While separated by their understanding of the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, the Ethiopian Catholic and Orthodox Churches have basically the same sacraments, the same prayers, the same devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the angels and the saints, the same traditions: the same faith. For this reason, the Ethiopian Catholic Church does not proselytize Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, but strives for brotherly cooperation. Indeed, Ethiopian Catholics pray and work in hope for the day that the Ethiopian Catholic and Orthodox Churches will unite in full communion."
Following this line of reasoning all Christians should abandon the Deuterocanon for the sake of the Protestant Bible.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is an Oriental Orthodox church, just like the Greek Orthodox Church is an Eastern Orthodox Church. The former speaks to the particular church and the latter refers to the larger communion in which it resides.I thought they fell under the Oriental Orthodox Church.
I was taught in RCIA that the Catholic understanding of the inspired nature of the canon is a positive proposition: The infallibility of the Church ensures that the books that are in the canon are divinely inspired, but that does not necessarily mean that there are no other divinely inspired books outside of the canon. This means that at a minimum a Catholic must accept those books defined at the Council of Trent, but a Catholic of a particular sui juiris church whose canon is larger than that of the Latin church is OK. Is this incorrect?
I’m having some trouble understanding the relevance of that quote to my post. Could you clarify a bit please?
Look again. Most of what I would call the historic Churches accept at least the seven books in question in agreement with the Western Church, even if have a more loose definition of what ‘canon’ is and accept a few more books than we do. Now I know some people out there would invoke a ‘Trail of Blood’-type of thing here, but let’s be honest: Protestantism as a whole and the various denominations thereof only came fairly recently on the scene.
I do understand where you’re coming from in respect one Catholic Rite’s tradition verus another. For example from catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0804.html
Change that to all the historic Churches. Western Christians accept them, the Eastern Churches accept them, the Oriental Churches accept them. (Although again the Ethiopian Tewahedo do not have 1-2 Maccabees as we know it - or even 3-4 Maccabees; they instead have what is called I, II, and III Meqabyan, which despite the similar-sounding name, are really different works entirely.)
Half and half, in a way- I’m almost going to say yes and yes, to both propositions. If you look in a Greek Catholic Bible, you will see that everything acknowledged by the Eastern tradition is in there, but it is separated just a little bit with notation acknowledging that it is not a part of the recognized canon. Essentially, the bits that are called Deutero by some and Apocryphal by others are written within the pages (which makes it different from a standard RC Bible) but effectively labeled Apocryphal (which makes it different from the standard accepted content of the Greek Septuagint).