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Fulfilled in Christ: The Sacraments—A Guide to Symbols and Types in the Bible and Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

Fr. Devin Roza’s Fulfilled in Christ is an index to the tradition of typological interpretation of the Bible. It unveils the parallels between the signs and events of the Scriptures and the Sacraments of the Church, as represented in the New Testament as well as the liturgy and teachings of the Catholic Church. The Early Church read the Scriptures with the conviction that (in the words of St....

Typology is the discernment of realities, events, deeds, words, symbols, or signs in the Bible that foreshadow the fulfillment of God’s plan in Jesus Christ. Some brief comments on each section of the above definition to sum up what we have seen so far: The discernment—Typology discerns in the works of God prefigurations of what is to come in the person of Jesus Christ. More than a scientific study that follows mathematical rules, discernment implies a work of faith, with openness to the Holy Spirit
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