What’s the Pastoral Use of Typology?

~ Alastair Roberts

I very much appreciate your keen eye for typology and the like. As a pastor, I continually find myself thinking “That’s cool. So what?” I know that’s what many of my parishioners are thinking, so I try to show the importance and application of intertextual connections. I’d very much like to hear your reflections on the pastoral value of typology.

You can read the Theopolis post on Jacob and David that I mentioned here.
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Alastair Roberts (PhD, Durham University) writes in the areas of biblical theology and ethics, but frequently trespasses beyond these bounds. He participates in the weekly Mere Fidelity podcast, blogs at Alastair’s Adversaria, and tweets at @zugzwanged.

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  1. This is really good stuff. When I became a believer as a 20 something in the mid 1970’s I could not find anything that helped explain how to read scripture like this. I could see that the New Testament writers were reading like this, but most scholars warned against, and even ridiculed this sort of reading. Matthew was just blatantly ripping scripture out of context ( according to modern interpreters). I’ve been working through some classes over on The Bible Project that cover the first 11 chapters of Genesis in considerable detail, and through some series of connections ended up over here. This particular video really helps one understand why narrative can be so much more meaningful than, say, a list of precepts.

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