Canon-Within-Within-The Canon

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The Canon-within-the-Canon Concept
The "canon-within-the-canon" concept is another important development in the theological reflection about the canon. It suggests that, for specific circumstances or a specific point in time or even a specific religious community, some books are to be valued higher than others. After all, even Martin Luther referred to the book o f James as the "straw epistle"
The "canon-within-the-canon" concept has also been called the "christological principle." The question is, Would it not be acceptable to define a nucleus of books within the accepted canon that contains the most essential and important content? Another metaphor often utilized in this context—and also often seen in recent Adventist publications—is the reference to core points of …show more content…
This may be postmodern wisdom, but it is definitely not based upon biblical theology.
Some parts of the New Testament [or the OT] may continually wield greater influence because they are longer and more comprehensive. But to raise pragmatic pastoral choices and the accidents of composition to the obligation to relativize the canon is to deny that there is a canon that must stand as the test of our pastoral choices.14
The "canon-within-the-canon" concept is actually one side of a tendency to question the validity o f the concept of normative authority. Since it does not appear to change the content of the canon outwardly, it is the more dangerous one. On the other hand, it encourages the tendency to expand the canon and include apocryphal or other contemporary religious writings into the accepted canon.
Some interpreters want to distinguish between the NT and the OT in terms of the "canon within the canon," whereby the NT "obviously" holds the higher authority. But here an important theological principle is at stake. Different levels of inspiration do not exist—at least not
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