The critical movement has seen the dissolution of the monolithic understanding of Scripture, a unity imposed we might say ‘from above’, from unquestionable divine and ecclesiastical authority. It has established beyond question the diversity and humanity of the writings. Attempts like those of the ‘Biblical Theology’ movement, to see a simple ‘biblical’ view of things are now generally supposed to have failed.
~ Colin Gunton, Enlightenment & Alienation: An Essay toward a Trinitarian Theology