I’m increasingly skeptical that ‘salvation history’ accounts for the theology of the Old Testament. It cannot account for (1) too much of the content of the OT, nor for the form of the OT. It also falls prey to reducing the OT to a ‘witness’ to history and not seeing it as revelation in itself.
@KyleEssary I say this as someone who has taught courses on Biblical Theology using Goldsworthy, Goheen, and Wellum/Gentry. I don’t doubt that ‘salvation history’ plays a role in the theology of the OT, but I no longer think it provides the structure to the theology of the OT.
@KyleEssary I’d love to hear more about this (in lay terms, ha). I entered the RCC a couple years ago and the idea of salvation history felt like a revelation — a typological sense that brought together so many story forms, etc. I’d love to hear the big ideas about how else to understand it.
@ablerism I think I might try to write it out in a post sometime soon, where I have more space. I don’t deny salvation history, and think it does bring so much together, but I’m skeptical of it serving as the prime structure through which the OT communicates its theology.