often comes from a certain type of liberal (positivist, historicist), who believes that the meaning of a text is entirely limited by its original occasion and audience. Conservatives, too, sometimes make the charge, but with less consistency. Typology can degenerate into a sort of matching game of superficial correspondence between the testaments that differs but little from allegory. It would seem to us that conservatives are more likely to shortchange typology from another perspective. They may