at the character of typology is crucial to adjudicating the biblical-theological systems of dispensational and covenant theology. One of the reasons for the differences between these two views, as we will note in more detail below, centres on the issue of the nature of typology and how that typological understanding relates to the biblical covenants. For example, as already mentioned in chapter 2, major disagreements over how dispensational theology understands the land promise, contra covenant theology,