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Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method is unavailable, but you can change that!

Arguing for the need both to preach Christ in every sermon and to preach regularly from the Old Testament, Sidney Greidanus develops a christocentric method that will help preachers do both simultaneously. Greidanus challenges Old Testament scholars to broaden their focus and to understand the Old Testament not only in its own historical context but also in the context of the New Testament....

that is fulfilled in Christ: one would move in the sermon from the type to the Antitype. And the same holds when the text relates a theme which is further developed in the New Testament: one would move in the sermon from the Old Testament theme to its latest development in the New Testament. Sometimes the classification of “textual preaching” is misunderstood as preaching only the message of the selected text. But the term “textual preaching” was coined to
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