Types and Symbols in the Bible: A Mystical Bible Commentary
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By Christopher Lockwood
Types and Symbols in the Bible is an Orthodox Christian commentary focusing on symbolic and typological interpretations. It shows how Old Testament themes relate to Christ as Creator, Son, Prophet, Priest, and King, and how all biblical stories are fulfilled in Christ and the Church.
MANY REGARD THE BIBLE TODAY as a book that records events which are already complete, which should only be interpreted literally or historically. Approaching Holy Scripture through types and symbols, however, reveals the hidden and infinite mystery contained in its pages. This transforms the faithful reader from a passive viewer of distant events into an active communicant of that eternal mystery, making it possible to find the living Christ on every page (Jn 5:39). Using this approach, the economy of salvation is no longer simply a static record, but a direct and living encounter. Holy Scripture then comes alive as a mystical story in which each and every believer is called to be a co-author and communicant together with the Lord, the great Author of our faith (Heb 12:2).
Divided into five thematic parts, Types and Symbols in the Bible explores the major themes of the Old Testament as they relate to the one eternal Christ: Jesus the Creator, Jesus the Son, Jesus the Prophet, Jesus the Priest, and Jesus the King. In doing so it shows how all of the Bible's stories, actors, offices, and events are fulfilled perfectly in Christ and in the Church. In this way, it provides a radically different way of reading the Bible. And yet this way is not new, for it is a way of reading and seeing that the Fathers and the saints of the Orthodox Church have used for centuries.
ISBN: 978-1-964233-07-9
