Old Testament By Brueggemann Summary

In the article by Brueggemann, he reviews the history of Old Testament theology from the Reformation to modern times. His main insight, in the article covers the Reformation and The Critical Enterprise, is that, though the reformers freed the Bible from being read only under the teaching of Roman Catholic tradition, their ideas quickly hardened into theological systems and dogmas under which the Bible was read. The same became true of the various critical methods. One cannot fully escape one’s beliefs and traditions as one conveys one’s theology. The "rescue of biblical theology" came about in the nineteenth century.
Brueggemann stated that the Old Testament Theology in its modern intention was exclusively an enterprise of the Protestant Christianity