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"Gnosticism and canon are as different as contemporary theological liberalismand biblical orthodoxy! Indeed, the latest versions of liberalismseek to create a “new” view of Christianity shorn of any notion of creedor canon and based precisely on the faith of their ancient Gnostic counterparts.While the early church in its most ancient creed affirmed the validityof Scripture (1 Cor 15:3–8), the Gnostics spent a good part of theirtime reviling those Scriptures—opting for a “canon within the canon”—and the God, the Creator, who inspired them. This perennial heresyreturns today in various spiritual forms of paganized Christianity, butthey will not prevail against the historic rock of the biblical canon."

"Meredith G. Kline supported conservative views of canon by arguing thatancient Near Eastern treaties and Deuteronomy contained canonicalclauses, meaning that their texts were authoritative for the vassal communitywhen they were written, as were biblical books performing functionsgoverning that community. Based on discontinuities between the Old andNew Testament forms of the covenant community, Kline redefined canonas documents structuring and implementing the polity of the variousphases of the vassal community. Thus, the Old Testament counts as Scripture,but not canon, for the church. Critical scholarship perceives Kline’s views asconservative dogma rather than historical argument; conservatives approvehis demonstration that all Scripture is covenantal, but dislike his distinctionsbetween faith, individual-life, and community-life (polity) norms."