Entertainment / Literature / Typology: A mode of biblical interpretation introduced by Saint Paul and developed by Patristic writers as a means of reconciling the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) and the New Testament. Saint Augustine expressed the general principle in De Doctrina Christiana, in which he writes, 'In the Old Testament, the New Testament is concealed, in the New Testament, the Old Testament is revealed.' The theory is contested by Hebrew scholars, but in patristic and medieval Latin writings, it was accepted widely by Christians eager to reconcile their faith with Hebrew antiquity. In typological theory, key persons, events, and symbols in the Old Testament are viewed as 'figures' or 'figurations' (Latin figurae) that predict a matching figure in the New Testament. These figurae were seen as historically real in and of themselves, but also they served as 'prefigurations' of similar persons, events, and symbols in the New Testament. The Old Testament figures were known as types and the New Testament figures were known as antitypes.
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Entertainment / Literature / Antitype: A figure, event, or symbol in the New Testament thought to be prefigured by a different figure, event, or symbol in the Old Testament. See extended discussion under typology. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Tropological: Not to be confused with either typology or the rhetorical device of the trope, the term tropological refers to the interpretation of literature in which the interpreter focuses on the ethical lesson p MORE