Biblical Theology of Old and New Testament Theological Reflection of the Christian Bible Quotes

“The Christian canon consists of two different, separate voices, indeed of two different choirs of voices. The Old Testament is the voice of Israel, the New that of the church. But beyond this, the voice of the New Testament is largely that of a transformed Old Testament which is now understood in the light of the gospel.”
― Brevard S. Childs, Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible

“the text itself is not the generative force of truth. Rather, through the Spirit the reality to which the text points, namely to Jesus Christ, is made active in constantly fresh forms of application.”
― Brevard S. Childs, Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible

“The role of the canon as scripture of the church and vehicle for its actualization through the Spirit is to provide an opening and a check to continually new figurative applications of its apostolic content as it extends the original meaning to the changing circumstances of the community of faith (cf. Frei, Eclipse, 2–16). These figurative applications are not held in isolation from its plain sense, but an extension of the one story of God’s purpose in Jesus Christ.”
― Brevard S. Childs, Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible

“First, von Rad’s description of a traditio-historical trajectory of actualization failed to deal adequately with the post-exilic process of the textualization of the tradition which preceded and issued in the canonization of authoritative scripture. Secondly, his understanding of the New Testament as a charismatic, typological appropriation of Israel’s tradition did not adequately deal with the centre of the New Testament’s proclamation of the gospel, which arose from the impact of the resurrection. The effect is that the New Testament was not a linear continuation of the Old Testament, nor does the Old Testament lean toward the New. Rather the direction of the tradition’s growth was often reversed. The evangelists read from the New backward to the Old. The resulting transformed Old Testament served greatly to intensify the problem of Biblical Theology in understanding the nature of the Bible’s unity and indeed led to many of the major concerns of this volume.”
― Brevard S. Childs, Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible