Is the Canon Implicitly Contained in Scripture?

Intro

In my opinion, some of the most interesting questions of theology concern issues touching the properties, nature, scope, and relations of the science. Central among these include questions touching dogmatic development, ecclesiastical faith, the nature of theological conclusions, etc.

One of the areas that I have been unlearning many wrong positions in recently has to do with the nature of ecclesiastical faith and secondary objects of infallibility. One of the most interesting applications of these questions is to another area that I have written about from time to time, the nature of the canon. The application of the former question to the latter provides an interesting solution to a question I have been thinking about for awhile, whether the canon of scripture can be said to be “implicit” in Scripture itself (which, of course, abstracts from various polemical questions against Protestants).