Carson says, вЂњEveryone does that which is right in his or her own eyes, and calls it biblical theology.вЂќ 3 Even a cursory survey of the literature proves CarsonвЂ™s statement. Finally, we will explain how this approach to typology contrasts with вЂњfigural readingвЂќ and the attendant problems with figural readings as a subjectivist and reader-oriented approach to the relationship between texts within Scripture.Дescribing the use of the term вЂњbiblical theologyвЂќ in contemporary biblical scholarship, D. Third, we will consider the implications of biblical-theological exegesis for typology. We will describe this approach to Scripture as biblical-theological exegesis. Second, we will unravel how our understanding of biblical theology both creates and constrains hermeneutical commitments with regard to the relationship between the testaments and the NT use of the OT. In order to unpack this thesis we will first explain our understanding of the discipline of biblical theology. Ultimately we will argue that the exegetical logic of the NT authors demonstrates that types are historical, authorially-intended, textually rooted, tied to ScriptureвЂ™s covenant structure, and undergo escalation from old covenant shadow to new covenant reality. Put simply, we are attempting to describe how typology in the NT вЂњworks.вЂќ Understanding that logic will reveal a great deal about how the NT authors conceived of the nature of types.

In other words, we are endeavoring to uncover the exegetical logic that undergirds the NT authorsвЂ™ interpretation and that leads them to interpret typology as a feature of divine revelation. Our aim is to set out the essential features of a type by rooting typology in the basic presuppositions of biblical theology and in Scripture as a self-interpreting divine-human book that progressively unfolds along covenantal epochs.

Given the debate surrounding typology, even in evangelical circles, this article argues for an approach to typology that coheres with a self-consciously Reformed and evangelical understanding of the discipline of biblical theology. These matters are further complicated by related (and equally polarizing) issues such as the nature of biblical theology, the NTвЂ™s use of the OT, the structure of the canon, authorial intent, the relationship of the divine and human authors of Scripture, and other knotty theological and hermeneutical issues.

As Doug Moo has noted, вЂњtypology is much easier to talk about than to describe.вЂќ 1 Even among evangelicals, competing definitions of typology are legion.

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