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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