Figured Out: Typology and Providence in Christian Scripture

Name: Figured Out: Typology and Providence in Christian Scripture
ISBN: 9780664222680

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Available as: Paperback
ISBN: 0664222684, 9780664222680
Page count: 256
Published: 2001
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

All of our attempts to find the historical backgrounds to texts have led us to believe that we have "figured out" the Bible. Steering a course between modernity's obsession with historical readings and fundamentalism's compulsion for ahistorical readings, Christopher Seitz recovers a figural/typological approach to both the Old and New Testament that shapes a theological understanding of Scripture. Figured Out examines the loss of figural assumptions and models another way forward.

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Christopher Seitz

Christopher R. Seitz is Professor of Old Testament and Theological Studies at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. He is the author or editor of eight books including Figured Out: Typology, Providence and Christian Scripture and Nicene Christianity: The Future for a New Ecumenism.