Continuity and Discontinuity (Essays in Honor of S. Lewis Johnson, Jr.)

Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments

John S. Feinberg

• Publisher: Crossway
• Year: 1988
• Print ISBN:
  9780891074687
• eBook ISBN:
  9781433554148
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Evangelicals agree that the Bible is God's inerrant word. But we sometimes differ on how to relate the messages of the Old and New Testaments. Without a basic understanding of this crucial matter, it is difficult to know how to use the Testaments to formulate either doctrine or practice.

For example: Was Israel the OT Church—are OT promises to God's national people fulfilled in the church today? Or, is Mosaic Law binding on believers now—are twentieth-century Christians to obey the Ten Commandments, including sabbath observance?

In this book, thirteen noted evangelical theologians discuss, fairly but clearly, the continuity/discontinuity debate in regard to six basic categories: theological systems, hermeneutics, salvation, the Law of God, the people of God, and kingdom promises.

Covering much more than the differences between Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism, this work of distinguished evangelical scholarship will fuel much profitable study and discussion.

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NOTES

CHAPTER 1

1.	The subject of the fuller knowledge offered by the NT in relation to the OT is taken up by Douglas J. Moo, “The Problem of Sensus Plenior,” Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon, Don Carson and John Woodbridge, eds. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986), pp. 175-211.
2.	J. W Wenham, Christ and the Bible (Wheaton: Tyndale, 1972); R. T. France, Jesus and the Old Testament (London: Tyndale, 1971).
3.	R. N. Longenecker, Biblical Criticism in the Apostolic Period (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975); E. E. Ellis, Paul´s Use of the Old Testament (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1957).
4.	Shemaryahn Talmon, “The Old Testament Text,” The Cambridge History of the Bible. From the Beginning to Jerome, I (Cambridge: CUP, 1970), pp. 159-99.
5.	J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines (New York: Harper Row, 1958).
6.	F C. Burkitt, Church and Gnosis (1932), p. 132 (cited in Kelly, p. 68); J. Knox, Marcion and His Influence (London: SPCK, 1942); and E. C. Blackman, Marcion and His Influence (London, SPCK, 1948).
7.	Karlfried Froehlich, ed. and trans., Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984); and Harry A. Wolfson, Philo, Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard, 1947).
8.	M. F Wiles, “Origen As a Biblical Scholar,” Cambridge History, I, pp. 454-89; on the “senses” of the text: G. W. Olsen, “Allegory Typology, and the Sensus Spiritualis. Part 1: Definition and Earliest History” Com 4 (1977): 161-79; Henri de Lubac, Exégèse Mediévale. Les Quatre Sens de l’Ecriture, 4 vols. (Paris: Aubier, 1959).
9.	L. Goppelt, Typos (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982; trans. from Ger. ong., 1939); G. W. H. Lampe and Woolicombe, Essays on Typology (London: SCM, 1957).
10.	M. F Wiles, “Theodore of Mopsuestia as Representative of the Antiochene School,” Cambridge History, I, pp. 489-510.
11.	H. F D. Sparks, “Jerome as Biblical Scholar,” Cambridge History, I, pp. 510-41.
12.	Gerald Bonner, “Augustine as Biblical Scholar,” Cambridge History, I, pp. 541- 63; R. L. Petersen, “To Behold and Inhabit the Blessed Country: Revelation, Inspiration, Scripture, and Infallibility. An Introductory Guide to Augustine Studies, 1945-1980” TJ 4 (Autumn 1983): 28-81.
13.	R. A. Markus, Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St. Augustine of Hippo (Cambridge, 1970).
14.	Jean Leclercq, “From Gregory the Great to St. Bernard,” in G. W. H. Lampe, ed., The Cambridge History of the Bible. The West from the Fathers lo the Reformation, II (Cambridge, 1969).
15.	G. R. Evans, The Language and Logic of the Bible (Cambridge, 1984); Leclercq, “From Gregory the Great to St. Bernard”; and Beryl Smalley, “The Bible in the Medieval Schools,” Cambridge History, II, pp. 197-220.
16.	B. McGinn, The Calabrian Abbot. Joachim of Fiore in the History of Western Thought (New York: Macmillan, 1985); Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study of Joachimism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1969).
17.	Beryl Smalley, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon, 1952. rev. ed).
18.	E. R. Fairweather, ed., A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm lo Ockham (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1956); Etienne Gilson, Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages (New York, 1938); P Synave, “La doctrine de St. Thomas d’Aquin sur le sens litteral des Ecritures,” Rev Bib 35 (1926).
19.	The attribution is by Richard Simon. On Lyra: Herman Hailperin, Rashi and he Christian Scholar (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1963).
20.	Heinrich Bornkamm, Luther and the Old Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969); J. S. Preus, From Shadow to Promise. Old Testament interpretation from Augustine to the Young Luther (Cambridge: Belknap, 1969); Roland Bainton, “The Bible in the Reformation,” in S. L. Greenslade, The Cambridge History of the Bible, The West from the Reformation to the Present Day, lii (Cambridge: CUP, 1963), pp. 1-37; J. J. Pelikan, Luther the Expositor (St. Louis: Concordia, 1959).
21.	John Headley, Luther's View of Church History (New Haven: Yale, 1963); George H. Williams, The Radical Reformation (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1962).
22.	E. A. Dowey, The Knowledge of God in Calvin's Theology (New York: Columbia, 1952); R. S. Wallace, Calvin's Doctrine of Word and Sacrament (Edinburgh, 1954); E. G. Rupp. “Word and Spirit in the First Years of the Reformation,” ARG 49 (1959): 13-26.
23.	Heinrich Quistorp, Calvin's Doctrine of Last Things, trans. Harold Knight (London: Lutterworth, 1955); Brian Ball, A Great Expectation. Eschatological Thought in English Protestantism to 1660 (Leiden: Brill, 1975); R. L. Petersen, “Preaching in the Last Days” (Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton Theological Seminary 1985).
24.	R. Padberg, Erasmus von Rotterdam: Seine Spiritualität (Paderborn: Bonifacius, 1979); Louis Bouyer, “Erasmus in Relation to the Medieval Biblical Tradition” Cambridge History, Il, pp. 492-505.
25.	H. Heppe, Reformed Dogmatics, trans. G. T. Thomson (London: Allen and Unwin, 1950); H. Schmid, The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, trans. C. A. Hay and H. E. Jacobs (Minneapolis: Augsburg. 1961. 3rd rev. ed.).
26.	C. M. E. Eire, War Against Idols. The Reformed View of Worship (Cambridge, 1986); Norman Sykes, “The Religion of the Protestants,” Cambridge history, II, pp. 175-98; on Catholicism: F J. Crehan, “The Bible in the Roman Catholic Church from Trent to the Present Day” Cambridge History, II, pp. 199-237; K. R. Firth, The Apocalyptic Tradition in Reformation Britain, 1530-1645 (Oxford, 1979).
27.	J. Woodbridge, “Some Misconceptions of the Impact of the ‘Enlightenment’ on the Doctrine of Scripture,” J. Woodbridge and D. Carson, eds., Hermeneutics, pp. 241-70; W Neil, “The Criticism and the Theological Use of the Bible,” Cambridge History, II, pp. 238-93; G. R. Cragg, From Puritanism to the Age of Reason (Cambridge, 1950).
28.	D. Brown, Understanding Pietism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978), pp. 64-82; F. E. Stoeffler, The Rise of Evangelical Pietism (Leiden: Brill, 1965).
29.	K. Barth, Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century (Valley Forge: Judson, 1973), pp. 266-3 12.
30.	C. Welch, Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century (New Haven: Yale, 1972).
31.	Ibid., pp. 190-240.
32.	On the American setting: E. L. Tuveson, Redeemer Nation. The Idea of America Millennial Role (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1968); cf., R. G. Clouse, ed., The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views (Downers Grove: IVP, 1977).
33.	B. Childs, Biblical Theology in Crisis (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1970).
34.	J. D. Smart, The Interpretation of Scripture (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1961), pp. 260-307.
35.	Anthony C. Thiselton, The Two Horizons. New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Description (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980); Peter Stuhlmacher, Historical Criticism and Theological Interpretation of S...

Table of contents

• Title
• Copyright
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
• PREFACE John S. Feinberg
• I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• II. THEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND THE TESTAMENT
• III. HERMENEUTICS AND THE TESTAMENTS
• IV. SALVATION AND THE TESTAMENTS
• V. THE LAW AND THE TESTAMENTS
• VI. THE PEOPLE OF GOD AND THE TESTAMENTS
• VII. KINGDOM PROMISES AND THE TESTAMENTS
• EPILOGUE John S. Feinberg
• IN TRIBUTE TO S. LEWIS JOHNSON, JR
• NOTES
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS