A third distinctive quality of this Theology of the Old Testament is related to the second: understanding and living out what the Old Testament means for our new context. As Brueggemann describes it, we live in a new world in which there is no consensus about truth and reality and no revered authority—not even communities of faith, increasingly marginalized—that can gather this consensus, except perhaps for one voice that sounds compellingly above all our voices, calling for allegiance: a voice that