The Old and New Testaments

I'm not going to do much on this section. This quote stands out to me as an important one to consider:

For our thought, the point of departure is definitely the New Testament. It cannot be contested that the New Testament understands its proclamation upon the basis of the Old Testament. It is equally incontestable that the way in which the message witnessed to in the New Testament is understood defines the position of the Old Testament. In addition, we only have the Old Testament through the mediation and reception which is made known in the New Testament. There is no other approach to the Old Testament for us than the way paved by the proclamation of the New.

Weber, 287-8.

This is fairly controversial, and probably not something you're going to hear in a lot of modern scholarship. It seems to devalue the Old Testament in and of itself, but I don't think that it does. I actually think it gives it more value by its insistence that it has something to say about the New (and about Christ)! I think the important phrase to understanding this quote is that this approach is 'for us', as in, for Christians and the Church. Obviously, this approach would make no sense to Jews, for instance.

As I flip through this section, there is some really good stuff in here...maybe I'll try to put up some material on it later after all.