Typology’s War Against Modernity
This is the intro to one JBA’s Amazon booklist. Too good a quote to pass up:
“In recent years postliberal theology and certain strands of Reformed thought have seen typology and chiasm as an essential method of biblical study.
While some forms of postmodernity are helpful to the church, most are not as avant garde as they pretend.
Ironically, liberals and most conservatives have the same method of bible study: you the individual must learn as many facts about the text as possible, importing back into the text foreign paradigms (or more accurately, bad foreign paradigms).
Typology, however, provides a subtle but deadly maneuver against modernity: it challenges modernity’s use of reason and forces it to think in terms of story and symbol, which by definition it can’t do.”
Yes, conservatives, he means you.
(Pic: the optic chiasma)
