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                                                                                             On On "the Christian Witness of the Bible"

I have argued that "an authentically theological way of construing the Bible could only be a special case of historical theology... – -- namely, the special case in which the Christian witness whose meaning is to be critically interpreted is the Christian witness of the Bible" (Doing Theology Today: 43). But what is meant, exactly, by "the Christian witness of the Bible"? To speak of "the Christian witness of the New Testament" is not obviously problematic, since all of the NT writings can be critically interpreted as at least descriptively bearing witness to Jesus Christ and, therefore, as at least descriptively Christian witness. But can the OT writings also be critically interpreted in this way, as Christian witness?

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