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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....

First, a genuine type is historical. Goppelt states, “Only historical facts—persons, actions, events, and institutions—are material for typological interpretation; words and narratives can be utilized only insofar as they deal with such matters.”68 The School of Antioch used the characteristic of historicity primarily to distinguish typology from allegorical interpretation. Second, a genuine type is theocentric, that is, it has to do with God’s acts in and through human persons and events. As John
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