But it is aware of the shortcomings of the historical-critical approach, and seeks to go beyond it to a new understanding of BT appropriate to a postcritical age. BT is not to be undertaken in independence from the life of the church, the community that recognizes the Bible as its canonical Scripture. What will be proposed here may be called an intermediate biblical theology, for it is seen as a bridge discipline, standing in an intermediate position between the historical study of the Bible and