The methodology itself seems to require such a radical approach: it can not stand still when it scents the operation of man in sacred history. (firstthings.com)
Connecting this critical moment in sacred history to concerns of the present. (religion-online.org)
This approach, which is associated with Karl Barth, Jacques Ellul, and Wilhelm Vischer, among others, and which also has certain affinities with the confessional stances of Gerhard van Rad and Brevard Childs, seeks to supplement the historical - critical method by theological exegesis in which the innermost intentions of the author are related to the center and culmination of sacred history mirrored in the Bible, namely, the advent of Jesus Christ. (religion-online.org)