It’s a fine line between the ontological claim of “It’s not the same deity” and the hermeneutic claim of “It’s still Him, but they got Him all wrong”—and I would say in practice, a vanishing line. I prefer the approach of radical hermeneutic reappraisal, though, in line with St. Paul.
That said, there are vast swaths of the OT that are ne…
It’s a fine line between the ontological claim of “It’s not the same deity” and the hermeneutic claim of “It’s still Him, but they got Him all wrong”—and I would say in practice, a vanishing line. I prefer the approach of radical hermeneutic reappraisal, though, in line with St. Paul.
That said, there are vast swaths of the OT that are never mentioned across the liturgical year, and I would deem that a sort of practical Marcionism: “Yeahh, just don’t worry about that part.”
It’s a fine line between the ontological claim of “It’s not the same deity” and the hermeneutic claim of “It’s still Him, but they got Him all wrong”—and I would say in practice, a vanishing line. I prefer the approach of radical hermeneutic reappraisal, though, in line with St. Paul.
That said, there are vast swaths of the OT that are never mentioned across the liturgical year, and I would deem that a sort of practical Marcionism: “Yeahh, just don’t worry about that part.”