By Whose Authority? the Essential Argument: A Compendium

By J. C. Anderson

This short compendium is the plain-language companion to the full book, By Whose Authority? Marcion, the Bishops, and the Making of the Bible, The Politics of Scripture. It distils the essential argument of the fuller work and tells it in reader-friendly terms- one brief chapter for each of the book's nine chapters, intelligible in a few minutes. Together these chapters carry the whole case from beginning to end - how the Bible was assembled, by whom, against whom, and the consequences of that decision still being suffered today.
Where the argument in this compendium moves quickly, the full book is where it slows down and shows its scholarship. If this shorter version persuades you, or provokes you, that is where to read the fuller version.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7B3KNR6
• ISBN13: 9798185244005
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"