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In these essays, Walter Brueggemann addresses the necessity for thinking about the shape and structure of Old Testament theology—and for the impact such thinking can have on the larger issues of contemporary life. Brueggemann draws on the work of persons from all disciplines and incorporates them in a seminal way in his theology. The work of persons in theology, psychology, the social sciences,...

at the same time. Surely they are best understood in relation to each other.6 Childs seeks to elaborate a notion of the Old Testament as a normative canon that moves beyond critical dissection and historical development. The completed form of the text offers a baseline for normative theology. The implication of Childs’s work, it seems to me, is to put the faith claims of Scripture beyond the interplay of historical and literary analysis. Conversely, Gottwald rigorously moves in the other direction.
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