The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

by Patrick Fairbairn

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Genres: Theology, Christianity, Religion

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1900

About the author

Rev. Patrick Fairbairn, D.D. (University of Edinburgh, 1826) was a minister and theologian of the Free Church of Scotland. He was Principal and Professor of Church History and Exegesis for the Free Church College from its 1856 founding until his death, and was Professor of Theology at the Free Church Theological College in Aberdeen from 1853.

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second volume is less boring than the first one. There are many good observations, but the discussion is often too long-winded. The best part of the book was actually Peter Masters' foreword to the modern reprint where he defends a nuanced approach to typology, which avoids the two extremes of either seeing types around every corner or thinking only what is specifically mentioned in the New Testament as a type of Christ can actually be one.

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a bad book, but being a 19th century author his writing is quite verbose. He could have covered his topics in a far less onerous fashion (806 pages!) and didn’t seem to cover the topic at hand, which was types.

[Josiah Bates · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fairbairn is so helpful on typology - this has been very useful over the past couple of weeks.