Subservient to Redemptive Historical
...we make a distinction as is sometimes done between the literary, the grammatical, and the historical. ...the historical is more fundamental and controlling. Any sort of grammatical, literary approaches, any sorts of genre concerns, have their validity only as they subserve, redemptive historical substance.
Richard Gaffin, Lecture 01 - Introduction, Acts and Paul, Westminster Theological Seminary, 2005