Frameworks for Understanding the Scriptures
Biblical Interpretation - 5. Frameworks
There are five common ways of relating together the Old and New Testaments:
- Reformed Covenant Theology: The N.C. is an administration of the Old (infant baptism)
- Dispensationalism: History is divided into seven dispensations. The O.C. is now abrogated (or suspended) (beleivers’ baptism)
- New-Covenant Theology (beleivers’ baptism): The relationship between the O.C. and the N.C. is not flat, but typological. (beleivers’ baptism) The movement is
- promise → fulfullment
- shadow → reality
- type → antitype
- flesh → spirit
- external written code → Jesus Christ (indwelling)
- No coherent framework: free to apply texts with no regard to historical epoch (most untrained evangelicals/charismatics)
- Modern-critical: no relationship between the Old and the New is necessary
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