Early Church leaders—trying to consolidate doctrine, liturgy, and authority—found Enoch both useful (it explained angelic rebellion, judgment, and apocalyptic hope) and dangerous (it opened doors to speculative angelology, alternative calendars and cosmologies, and non‑apostolic authority). Add messy textual transmission, limited geographic use, and mounting pastoral headaches, and you get a book that was popular but ultimately parked outside the catholic (universal) canon.
