Mak’s Reviews > Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method > Status Update

“…crucial that we, after establishing the original message of our text, view it again in the light of the New Testament, raising questions as to how this message connects with Jesus Christ. Does this passage witness to Christ by way of Old Testament expectations, predictions, promises, types, or themes which find their fulfillment in Christ in the New Testament?” (p. 62)

“The Old Testament holds the gospel to history. It is the surest bulwark against assimilation with alien philosophies and ideologies, against a flight into a sentimental and purely otherworldly piety, and against that disintegrating individualism that so easily besets us.” (p. 32, quoting Bright’s “Authority”)