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Reduced-Canon

Excludes some New Testament books (Hebrews, James, Revelation in Luther's reservations; or further reductions in radical groups).

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Canon is 66-Book-Protestant-Canon. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Cruxes on this attribute

The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Canon.

The Canon and the Apocrypha August 1645 The Assembly drew a sharper line against the Apocrypha than Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles.

Other positions on Canon

66-Book-Protestant-Canon WCF The 39 books of the Old Testament and 27 of the New, enumerated in WCF I.2; the Apocrypha is explicitly excluded (I.3). With-Apocrypha Includes the Apocryphal books as canonical (Trent) or as 'second canon' useful for instruction (some Anglican readings of Article VI).