The Coding Humanist

This weekend I read an interesting book. Here's the summary from my book review:

Dungan has written a very interesting book in his Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament. The point of the book can be summarized as follows: the idea of a canon comes from the Greeks, the early church used these ideas and came to a rough consensus, then Constantine jumped in and squashed all innovation and/or ability for the church to discuss this intelligently without fear of getting killed by said emperor. Now for a little more detail.

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