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"The New Testament is not a book of revelation in the sense that all of its pronouncements intend, directly or indirectly, to give answers to the questions with which life confronts us. It does not anticipate the natural development of the human race or the exploration of nature.
It does not provide critiques of every time-bound conception of the structure of the universe and what takes place in it... But it is that above all in its kerygmatic significance, that is, as proclamation of the the great acts of God in Christ. The New Testament, therefore...
is totalitarian in its scope, touching every area of human life and knowledge, because the salvation of which it speaks is totalitarian. It has that scope, however, in its own way, that is, it illumines man and the world, history and the future, church and nation...
state and society, science and art from one standpoint, the standpoint of the coming, death, resurrection, and return of Christ." - Herman Ridderbos, Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures.
