A revolution replaces the standard paradigm of normal science and it is during this time that Brevard Childs determines that the final form of the text is the key place where the interpretive work of the Old Testament needs to be done. Child's approach brings both a confessional approach to the Bible while viewing the critical posture toward the Old Testament to be taken seriously. Childs is dubious about approaches to the biblical material that do not allow the canon to play a constitutive role in understanding and use of critical issues in the Old Testament.