Joachim Schaper on the Origins of Biblical Theology as an Alternative to Dogmatic Theology

"The tension between dogmatic theology and biblical interpretation did not arise in the eighteenth century, under the impact of the Enlightenment, or in the nineteenth century, when the study of history unleashed its subversive power. Rather, that tension already became palpable when, in the late seventeenth century, the querelle des anciens et des modernes foreshadowed the hsitorians' debates of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries without which the need for concepts like those of a 'biblical theology', as opposed to dogmatic theology, would never have arisen."

Joachim Schaper, "The Question of a 'Biblical Theology' and the Growing Tension between 'Biblical Theology' and a 'History of the Religion of Israel': from Johann Philipp Gabler to Rudolf Smend, Sen." in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation, ed. Magne Sæbø, Vol. 3.1 (Bristol, CT: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), 629.