as Julius Wellhausen withdrawing from the schools of theology), but the unity of biblical theology was also shown to be of a provisional nature only. The Old and New Testaments are, as became increasingly clear, distinct from one another in terms of their theological message. They do not even fit together in terms of a progressive linear sequence, as is often intended through the conceptions of promise and fulfillment or of law and gospel. According to a growing consensus, from
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