![]() ![]() ![]() The decision concurred with the inclusion of listed deuterocanonical books made almost a century earlier at the Council of Florence. To counter the growing influence of the Reformers, the fourth session of the Catholic Council of Trent in 1546 confirmed that listed deuterocanonical books were equally authoritative as the protocanonical in the Canon of Trent, in the year Luther died. The Westminster Confession of Faith, published in 1647, was one of the first Reformed confessions in the English language to exclude the Apocrypha from the Bible, leading to the removal of these books in later Nonconformist Protestant Bible publications in the English-speaking world, though Lutherans and Anglicans retained these books as an intertestamental section that are regarded as non-canonical but useful for instruction. Martin Luther, holding to concurrent Jewish and some ancient precedent, excluded all deuterocanonical books from the Old Testament of his translation of the Bible, placing them in a section he labeled " Apocrypha" ("hidden"). ![]() Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Protestants use different canons, which differ with respect to the texts that are included in the Old Testament. The Old Testament includes the books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) or protocanon, and in various Christian denominations also includes deuterocanonical books. The Old Testament is the first section of the two-part Christian biblical canon the second section is the New Testament.
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