Sentences with phrase «typological exegesis»

Christological exegesis, when applied to the Old Testament, often takes the form of typological exegesis in which the acts of God in Old Testament history as well as the prophecies of his servants are seen to have their fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

Typological exegesis differs from allegorical and anagogical exegesis in that it is controlled by the analogy of faith, which views the events and discourses of the Old Testament in indissoluble relation to Jesus Christ, to the mystery of his incarnation and the miracle of his saving work (cf. Acts 26:22; I Peter 1:10 - 12).

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Instead of seeing such traditional readings as naïve or simply wrong, interpreters now ask about the assumptions and values that govern the reading practices of Christian typological and allegorical exegesis and of Rabbinic midrash.

Equally puzzling is the inclusion of Edmund Leach's essay «Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness,» which has little to recommend it but the author's eminence as perhaps the world's leading structural anthropologist — who here wishes to demonstrate that structuralism enables a style of biblical exegesis not unlike «the typological style of argument employed by the majority of early Christian writers.»