Two Quotes from Today's Reading

I spent nearly all day doing required reading for Hermeneutics class.  Here are two quotes (from rare portions of the reading that I actually understood):

“Here someone might argue that if God does more in the NT fulfillment of OT promises and types than he promised in the OT then he is not unfaithful if he does not fulfill literally the OT promises. [fn. Waltke] But how can a retracted promise in the OT text be the basis for the Church’s faith and confidence? In Oss ‘ example from 2 Samuel 7, how can the dismissal of any claim of a literal fulfillment for the nation of Israel be the basis of the Church’s hope? Or, if some of God’s promises to Israel are typological of experiences of the Church—such as the Church’s election, participation in the new covenant, and salvation—then how can such an application be any comfort to the Church if God does not keep those promises made to the nation of Israel in the OT context (1 Pet 2:9–10; Rom 9:25–26)?”  (Source: W. Edward Glenny, “The Divine Meaning of Scripture: Explanation and Limitations,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 38 (1995): 499.)

“The outcome of biblical studies in the academy is a trained incapacity to deal with the real problems of actual living persons in their daily lives.”  (Source: Walter Wink, cited in Anthony C. Thiselton, The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description, p. 86).