Two Quotes from Bruce Waltke about the nature of Old Testament Theology from his "Old Testament Theology" (Zondervan, 2007):
Nevertheless, biblical theologians aim to construct and formulate a theology that accords in some sense with the Bible, while essentially agreeing with James Barr's assertion: "What we are looking for is a 'theology' that existed back there and then" (James Barr, The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999), 4) (Waltke, 29).
Brevard S. Childs adopts and defends a self-consciously confessional approach: "The role of the Bible is not being understood simply as a cultural expression of ancient peoples, but as a testimony pointing beyond itself to divine reality to which it bears witness. . . . Such an approach to the Bible is obviously confessional. Yet the Enlightenment's alternative proposal that was to confine the Bible solely to the arena of human experience is just as much a philosophical commitment. (Brevard S. Childs, Biblical Theology: A Proposal (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002), 12) (Waltke, 31).
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