Dr. Peter-Ben Smit: The New Testament Canon in the Early Church

"The New Testament Canon in the Early Church: Development and Significance"
On November 30, 2011, theologian Prof. Dr. Peter-Ben Smit gives his inaugural address at Utrecht University. He will examine how the canon of the New Testament was created in the early church, and how the function of the canon was the explanation - or exegesis - of Scripture. 
Can something come about by human hands and become absolute authority? And how earlier generations and interpreting communities determine how a text is read? These questions are in the background when it comes to the formation of the biblical canon in the early church, and the historical and theological importance.
Smit states in his speech it is not the form or extent of the canon which is of central importance in the early church "canonical exegesis, but rather the interaction between text, faith and community. This thesis brings it into dialogue with current biblical studies and church history and tradition of the ancient Catholic practice of theology."
The lecture is open to the public.
Prof. Dr. Peter-Ben Smit professor at Utrecht University Foundation for the Old Catholic Seminary, teaching in the Old Catholic Church structures (as well as holding doctrines and history of Old Catholicism). He fulfills his teaching at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of Religious Studies and Theology. 
Recently published by him, Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History. The Catholic Church in Every Place Brill's Series in Church History 52 (Leiden: Brill, 2011) and Franz Segbers: Alberto B. Ramento. Bishop of Workers and Peasants. A prophetic testimony of a bishop and his church (Hilversum / Goes Sync. Creative Productions / Nilsson, 2011).