revelation and verbal inspiration. Short of that, the conservative rejoinder to critical arrogance and machismo is often simply: “It ain’t necessarily so!” Typology A few words should be said yet about one major specific theological accent of this book. We shall attempt to summarize it under the rubric of “typology.” One might easily cavil at the term. Since it often means different things to different people, let us attempt to summarize briefly what we have in mind. As such of course, “typology”