One thing which the Orthodox and many Oozers have in common is a questioning of the biblicism in the evangelical approach to Scripture. So our readers may be interested in this article at bible.org, reviewing the history of evangelicalism's wrestling with canonicity. Props to Energetic Procession for the link.
As I said in my earlier post on the history of anti-Catholicism, it's eye-opening to see where ideas that are taken for granted and stated as revealed truths actually developed at certain points in time, by certain individuals asserting them. Naturally this doesn't necessarily mean the ideas themselves are wrong, but as the article points out it can lead us to read these back in to the early church in anachronistic ways. An example discussed in the article is the widely-held assumption that there even was such a thing as a "closed canon" prior to the Reformation, whereas this simply isn't true. A careful study of history is really essential to a fully-informed faith, in my view.
In any case, this article is a good read and good historical overview, whatever your take on the subject.
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