Biblical Theology in Crisis (Review)

Review of Brevard S. Childs, Biblical Theology in Crisis (The Westminster Press, 1970).

W. H. Marshner

Triumph
Vol. V. No. 9
November 1970

“The strain of using orthodox Biblical language for the constructive part of theology, but at the same time approaching the Bible with all the assumptions of Liberalism, proved in the end to cause an impossible tension” (p. 103). B. S. Childs, professor of Old Testament at Yale and a major figure in Protestant biblical scholarship, has exploded a theological bomb in this work. Continue reading “Biblical Theology in Crisis”