The Locus of Revelation
Where does this author place the locus of revelation? Is he correct? Why or why not?
“At the heart of our concern in biblical theology is the progressive revelation that provides us with the data for theology. Evangelical biblical theology accepts that Jesus and the apostles got it right and that the Scriptures give us a true and faithful account of this revelation.”
This author places the locus of revelation in a reconstructed historical past, not in the Scriptures themselves. He commendably holds the Scriptures to be accurate “history,” but, I believe, wrongly regards the Scriptures to be merely a repository for facts. The facts are then constructed into theories about the revelation, but the Scripture itself is not seen as revelation or the locus for the meaning of revelation. At least, that’s what Sailhamer seems to say, and I find myself agreeing with him.