Term
Typology
A historical comparison where a person, office, or event in salvation history anticipates and corresponds to a later antitype.
Filed underHermeneuticsBiblical Theology
Definition
A biblical type is a person, office, place, institution, event or thing in salvation history that anticipates, shares correspondences with, escalates towards, and resolves in its antitype. Also: a comparison of events or persons along the scale of time (Adam and Christ, or the Exodus and the deliverance of Cross and Resurrection) and is thus 'historical'.
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- Contrasted with
- AllegoryTerm
- Narrower than
- IntertextualTerm
- Broader than
- MelchizedekPerson
- See also
- officeTerm
Sources
- 1.Alan Richardson and John Bowden The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology. (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983). 11Original citation: Richardson, Alan, and John Bowden. The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983, 11.
Last revised August 14, 2026