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Quotable

It was certainly not considered necessary that all the books of the New Testament should have been written by members of the Twelve Apostles. How would Paul have crept in? More attractive is the suggestion of Karl Rahner that the books of the New Testament are the foundation documents of the Church, expressing in writing the Church's own self-definition. They are normative in the Church's existence in the exactly same way as the Twelve themselves were orginally normative, representing the authentic oral tradition of Jesus.

--The Story of the Bible, Henry Wansbrough