Recently there has been a whole spate of works devoted to a theological interpretation of scripture. The two works edited by Kevin Vanhoozer are a collection of articles on the New and Old Testaments taken from the much larger Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (896 pages). Just doing a cursory search on Amazon will yield a number of works by Stephen Fowl, Dainer Treier, J. Todd Billings, and Christopher Seitz. This emphasis on the theological character of Scripture is a welcome response to the ever increasing field of biblical and theological studies. In seeing the proliferation and expanse of works devoted to the topic of theological interpretation and the Bible, one must ask why the surge of works at this particular time? Secondly, should we assume that this interpretive stance (theological angle) be just another voice in the crowd and will die down shortly? Although the cultural milieu we live in still shakes it wary finger at any ...