USING SCRIPTURE FOR THEOLOGY: UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY The Old Testament as a Hermeneutical Problem
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A special aspect of the question whether it is possible to do Christian theology is the question whether it is possible to do Old Testament theology. Indeed, there is a sense in which the possibility of the former depends upon the possibility of the latter. This is because the task of interpreting the Old Testament as such has been considered a distinctive part of the church's theological endeavour throughout its history, and indeed is arguably its central, most difficult hermeneutical task. Broadly speaking, the church's attitude to the Old Testament has been one of determination to keep it (malgre Marcion), 'from a sense that the roots of the Christian gospel are there, without having established, with any degree of unanimity, quite how it continues to address the church as the Word of God. The 'problem' of the Old Testament is caught in its very name the 'Old' Testament, as distinct from the 'New' and in the implication in the contrast that, because of the 'new' event witnessed to in Matthew-Revelation there is something passe about Genesis-Malachi (Chronicles).
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