Is the Old Testament eclipsed by New Testament?

[123Strontium]

So sometimes in my discussions with protestants, I’m told that their position is that the New Testament eclipses the Old Testament, so I am guessing that they tend to regard the Old Testament as like a History book or something because if Protestant theology places so much emphasis on Sola Fida, then morality is like an incidental spin-off their faith and also the fact that so much of Protestant theology is based on the teachings of St Paul. Protestant theology seems to have emphasis in different areas compared to Catholicism.

So my question is, with all this in mind, what is the catholic position in regard to the relationship of the Old Testament morality with the New Testament morality or teachings? Does catholic theology see a conflict between the OT and the NT like the Protestants do? Do we place equal emphasis on all sections of the Bible? Because when you compare it to Protestantism, they view the bible like a linear narrative of replacement and overriding of the old with the new?

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

The New Testament in the fulfillment of the Old Testament. God revealed Himself gradually to the Jewish people over the centuries and that revelation’s fulness came in the Incarnation.

Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. (Matthew 5:17)

In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he spoke to us through a son… (Hebrews 1:1-2)

The Old Testament is the foundation on which the New Testament stands. The entire canon of Scriptures contains God’s revelation of Himself, nothing is “eclipsed” by later Scriptural writings but rather is clarified and more fully revealed. Scripture must always be taken as a whole, no one part of it stands independently from the rest of the canon.

1. God, the inspirer and author of both Testaments, wisely arranged that the New Testament be hidden in the Old and the Old be made manifest in the New. For, though Christ established the new covenant in His blood (see Luke 22:20; 1 Cor. 11:25), still the books of the Old Testament with all their parts, caught up into the proclamation of the Gospel, acquire and show forth their full meaning in the New Testament (see Matt. 5:17; Luke 24:27; Rom. 16:25-26; 2 Cor. 14:16) and in turn shed light on it and explain it.

Dei Verbum

Other recommended reading:
The Pontifical Biblical Commission’s The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible