Brevard Springs Childs (Book order)

Brevard Springs Childs Book order

Brevard Childs was a professor of Old Testament at Yale University and one of the most influential biblical scholars of the 20th century. He is particularly noted for pioneering canonical criticism, a method that focuses on the biblical canon itself as a finished whole. Childs believed his work represented an entirely new departure, superseding the historical-critical method. His canonical approach, introduced in key publications, became the subject of widespread discussion.

Biblical theology of the Old and New Testaments : theological reflection on the Christian Bible

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This monumental work is the first comprehensive biblical theology to appear in many years and is the culmination of Brevard Child's lifelong commitment to constructing a biblical theology that surmounts objections to the discipline raised over the past generation. Childs rejects any approaches that overstress either the continuity or discontinuity between the Old and New Testaments. He refuses to follow the common pattern in Christian thought of identifying biblical theology with the New Testament's interest in the Old. Rather, Childs maps out an approach that reflects on the whole Christian Bible with its two very different voices, each of which retains continuing integrity and is heard on its own terms.