Building a mythic hero

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

Right. If we should stick to the first NT canon that would be Marcion, right?

No. It would be whatever recitations were memorized by the clergy of the late 1st century church and the early 2nd century non-Gnostic church. Marcion, however, is the first to give a clear list of what he considered canon - his list, however, was what was used by him, and what he demanded his priests use, but he was pretty strongly leaning towards Gnosticicism, so his canon is quite suspect.

Note that, until the Synod of Trullo, no canon was formally approved by council.

Athanasius' Canon was important as it defined the Alexandrian Rite's canon - he was patriarch of a regional church. His was one of the first canons accepted as a regional definition... in 367... but was grounded upon a century old tradion within the Alexandrian region.