Canon of the New Testament - Metzger, Bruce M. (former George L. Collard Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, former George L. Collard Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Princeton Theological Seminary)

How and why did the early Church come to regard certain gospels, epistles, and other books as authoritative Scripture? What considerations dictated the present sequence of the books in the New Testament? Dr Metzger takes up such questions and considers whether the canon is a collection of authoritative books or an authoritative collection of books.