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Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice is unavailable, but you can change that!

Cutting through the confusing array of interpretive strategies that claim the term “biblical theology,” Edward Klink and Darian Lockett consider five schools of thought regarding biblical theology and handle each in turn, defining and giving a brief developmental history for each one, and exploring each method through the lens of one contemporary scholar who champions it. Using a spectrum between...

Carson stresses the unity of Scripture, highlighting biblical theology as “canonical biblical theology.” But unlike BT4, Carson’s use of “canonical” simply means a theology of the entire Bible, “ ‘whole-Bible’ biblical theology”; he is not referring to any complex notion of the formation of canon as we will consider for BT4. Furthermore, the unity of Scripture must surface through inductive study, using the categories of the texts themselves. Here biblical theology is dependent on exegetical analysis,
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