This conception was taken up by the early Church Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle Ages ; ;

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

At first it was employed as a respectful title for any monk, but it was soon restricted by canon law to certain priestly superiors.

The power of the abbot was paternal but absolute, limited, however, by the canon law.

He was raised for a career in the Church and spent some time at the court of Hermann IV of Hesse, Elector of Cologne, who appointed him canon of the Cologne Cathedral.

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

) He was one of the eight exemplary historiographers included in the Alexandrian canon.

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.

The term " bodhisatta " ( Pāli language ) was used by the Buddha in the Pāli canon to refer to himself both in his previous lives and as a young man in his current life, prior to his enlightenment, in the period during which he was working towards his own liberation.

The Jewish ordering of the canon suggests that Chronicles is a summary of the entire span of history to the time it was written.

Thus, in the Hindu schools, if a claim was made that could not be substantiated by appeal to the textual canon, it would be considered as ridiculous as a claim that the sky was green and, conversely, a claim which could not be substantiated via conventional means might still be justified through textual reference, differentiating this from the epistemology of modern science.

In the years before the fourth century, as there was no universal and official canon of Sacred Scripture, there were no single-volume collections of Sacred Scripture.

From the 14th century, the term was also used for a junior member of a guild ( otherwise known as " yeomen ") or university ; hence, an ecclesiastic of an inferior grade, for example, a young monk or even recently appointed canon ( Severtius, de episcopis Lugdunen-sibus, p. 377, in du Cange ).

While still a youth he was made a canon of Magdeburg cathedral.

Later, the term was widely used in canon law for an important determination, especially a decree issued by the Pope, now referred to as an apostolic constitution.

Although the Apocrypha was part of the 1611 edition of the KJV, the LDS Church does not currently use the Apocrypha as part of its canon.

By specifying Catholic doctrine on salvation, the sacraments, and the Biblical canon, the Council was answering Protestant disputes.

The doctrinal acts are as follows: after reaffirming the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed ( third session ), the decree was passed ( fourth session ) confirming that the deuterocanonical books were on a par with the other books of the canon ( against Luther's placement of these books in the Apocrypha of his edition ) and coordinating church tradition with the Scriptures as a rule of faith.

In all three traditions, a canon was originally a rule adopted by a council ; these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

" When the Frankish bishops still insisted the abbot was wrong in obedience to St. Patrick's canon, he laid the question before the Pope St. Gregory I.

The growth of canon law in the Ecclesiastical Courts was based on the underlying Roman law and increased the strength of the Roman Pontiff.

Starlings and blackbirds are scared off by canon, from City Hall.

Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according to canon law, the equivalents of abbots or bishops ( the ordained male members of the church hierarchy who have, by right of their own office, executive jurisdiction over a building, diocesan territory, or a communal or non-communal group of persons — juridical entities under church law ).

They receive the vows of the nuns of the abbey ; they may admit candidates to their order's novitiate ; they may send them to study ; and they may send them to do pastoral and / or missionary work and / or assist — to the extent allowed by canon and civil law — in the administration and ministry of a parish or diocese ( these activities could be inside or outside the community's territory ).

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

Books 2 – 6 of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, a Latin prose narrative of the same events apparently compiled by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, are closely related to Ambroise's poem.

The rite begins with reading Psalm 50 ( the great penitential psalm ), followed by the chanting of a special canon.

( earlier similar lists vary by the omission or addition of a few books, see Development of the New Testament canon ).

Because Athanasius ' canon is the closest canon of any of the Church Fathers to the canon used by Protestant churches today, many Protestants point to Athanasius as the father of the canon.

The Protestant canon is the same as the Tanakh in content, as decided by the Council of Jamnia.

Fans sometimes make up explanations for such errors that may or may not be integrated into canon ; this has come to be colloquially known as fanwanking ( a term originally coined by the author Craig Hinton to describe excessive use of continuity ).

* Film canon, the limited number of masterpieces by which all other films are judged

* The Western Canon ( book ), book on the Western canon by Harold Bloom

Other than the Bible, the majority of the LDS canon constitutes revelation dictated by Joseph Smith and includes commentary and exegesis about the Bible, texts described as lost parts of the Bible, and other works believed to be written by ancient prophets.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

In 2007, Suchet spoke of his desire to film all the remaining stories in the canon and hoped to achieve this by the time of his 65th birthday ( May 2011 ).

So as to provide for men and women who feel a calling to the eremitic or anchoritic life without being or becoming a member of an institute of consecrated life, but desire its recognition by the Roman Catholic Church as a form of consecrated life nonetheless, the Code of Canon Law 1983 legislates in the Section on Consecrated Life ( canon 603 ) as follows:

Chiasson regards the poem as " intractable " in Tennyson's canon, but finds that the poem's meaning resolves itself when this indirection is understood: it illustrates Tennyson's conviction that " disregarding religious sanctions and ' submitting all things to desire ' leads to either a sybaritic or a brutal repudiation of responsibility and ' life '.

The desire for a Middle-earth canon arises from the need of some readers to form an internal consistency between the stories, a need related to their " willing suspension of disbelief ".

Some critics work largely with theoretical texts, while others read traditional literature ; interest in the literary canon is still great, but many critics are also interested in minority and women's literatures, while some critics influenced by cultural studies read popular texts like comic books or pulp / genre fiction.

For a detailed discussion of the differences including a more comprehensive table ( several essential tables are given below ) of Biblical scripture for both Testaments and the intertestamental period with regard to canonical acceptance in Christendom's various major traditions, see Wikipedia's article on " Biblical canon ".

Unlike other Latter Day Saint movement traditions ( such as the Community of Christ ), it also accepts the Pearl of Great Price as part of its scriptural canon, and has a history of teaching eternal marriage, eternal progression, and plural marriage ( although the LDS Church had abandoned that practice by the early 20th century ).

For example, the Council of Laodicea ( canon 29 ) required Christians to separate from Jewish laws and traditions, stating that Christians must not Judaize by resting on Sabbath, but must work that day and then, if possible, rest on the Lord's Day, and that any found to be Judaizers were declared anathema from Christ.

In general, essential doctrines of Messianic Judaism include views on God ( that he is omnipotent, omnipresent, eternal, outside creation, infinitely significant and benevolent — viewpoints on the Trinity vary ), Jesus ( who is believed to be the Jewish Messiah, though views on his divinity vary ), written Torah ( with a few exceptions, Messianic Jews believe that Jesus taught and reaffirmed the Torah and that it remains fully in force ), Israel ( the Children of Israel are central to God's plan ; replacement theology is opposed ), the Bible ( Tanakh and the New Testament are usually considered the divinely inspired Scripture, though Messianic Judaism is more open to criticism of the New Testament canon than is Christianity ), eschatology ( sometimes similar to many evangelical Christian views ), and oral law ( See also Christian Oral Tradition-observance varies, but most deem these traditions subservient to the written Torah ).

The Poem of the Man God by Maria Valtorta was forbidden by the Holy Office under Pope John XXIII in 1959, a condemnation upheld in Cardinal Ratzinger's above-mentioned 1985 letter, almost two decades after the abolition of the Index ; but in 2001 Catholic Bishop Roman Danylak, by then a canon of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and no longer in charge of an eparchy, granted, in his own words, " a letter of commendation, a Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur and a testimonial to this website of a Catholic monk on the writings of Maria Valtorta " ( the website in question being one with the title "— A Contemporary Mystic — acclaimed one of the greatest: Maria Valtorta and her masterwork: The Poem of the Man-God " and in another letter stated that The Poem of the Man-God is, with the other writings of Valtorta, " in perfect consonance with the canonical Gospels, with the traditions and magisterium of the Catholic Church ".

In all three traditions, a canon was initially a rule adopted by a council ( From Greek kanon / κανών, Hebrew kaneh / קנה, for rule, standard, or measure ); these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

The rites treated in this code, unless otherwise stated, are those that arise from the Alexandrian, Antiochene, Armenian, Chaldean and Constantinopolitan traditions " ( canon 28 ) When speaking of the Eastern Catholic Churches, the 1983 Latin Code of Canon Law uses the terms " ritual Church " or " ritual Church sui iuris " ( canons 111 and 112 ), and also speaks of " a subject of an Eastern rite " ( canon 1015 § 2 ), " Ordinaries of another rite " ( canon 450 § 1 ), " the faithful of a specific rite " ( canon 476 ), etc.

The decree proceeded to affirm, after listing the books of the Bible according to the Roman Catholic canon, that " If anyone receive not, as sacred and canonical, the said books entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin Vulgate edition, and knowingly and deliberately condemn the traditions aforesaid ; let him be anathema.

He quotes material resembling 4 Esdras ( 12. 1 ) and 1 Enoch ( 4. 3 ; 16. 5 ), which did not become part of the Biblical canon except in some traditions ( e. g. 1 Enoch is considered scriptural in the Ethiopian church ).

Like most prep schools, TMI has developed a not insubstantial canon of traditions and idiosyncrasies.

He was said to have become a monk at Camaldoli and then he taught at the monastery of St. Felix in Bologna and devoted his life to studying canon law, but contemporary scholarship does not attach credibility to these traditions.

The texts are a coherent whole, and generally thought to have been written by one author using oral traditions, rather than basing it on any of the other apocrypha or the orthodox canon.

The Gospel Book manuscript dating from the 9th century contains the Latin text of the four Gospels, along with prefatory material and canon tables – an interesting admixture of traditions.

Immediately after mentioning the special traditions of Rome, Alexandria and Antioch, the same canon speaks of the organization under metropolitans, which was also the subject of two previous canons.

After the mention of the special traditions of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch and other provinces, canon 6 goes on immediately to speak of the metropolitan form of organization, which was also the topic of the two preceding canons.

A reason may be that the royal table of Sakkara and the royal canon of Turin reflect Memphite traditions, which only allowed Memphite rulers to be mentioned.

Note that in the Russian tradition, often only the irmos is sung, the rest of the ode simply being read ; in Greek parishes, often the remaining troparia or simply eliminated, but in non-Russian traditions, all troparia of a canon are sung

For all of Austria's contributions to architecture, and having one of the most hallowed musical traditions in Europe, no Austrian literature made it to the classical canon until the 19th century.