Typology

Stephen Dempster ends his 2003 Dominion and Dynasty: A Biblical Theology of the Hebrew Bible with this sharp summary of the “hour-glass” logic of typology: “Typological features emerge naturally when the biblical text is understood as a Text. This is particularly clear for the . . . . Continue Reading »

God the Poet

In a chapter on Hamann in The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods , Frank Manuel is careful to distinguish Hamann’s views from “the commonplace tradition which explained the wide usage of myths, fables, parables, allegories by the wise rational legislators of antiquity as a . . . . Continue Reading »

Metaphor and Logos

In a 2004 article in JETS, Henri Blocher examines how recent philosophers have attempted to use metaphor to break through the “flatism” of Positivism. He agrees that Positivism must be opposed, but argues that it is best opposed on the grounds of a biblical ontology: “Under the . . . . Continue Reading »

Performative reading

Peter Kivy is known mainly for his work in the philosophy of music, but in his 2006 The Performance of Reading: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature he suggests that silent reading also has a musical quality: It is a performance by a performer to an audience of one who happens to be identical . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientific Typology

In his editorial introduction to Sermons and Discourses, 1720-1723 (The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series, Volume 10) (v. 10) (228-30), Wilson Kimnach emphasizes the central importance of typology in Edwards’s thinking. It was not simply a way of harmonizing old and new, but a clue to a . . . . Continue Reading »