The Typology of Scripture: Viewed in Connection With the Whole Series of the Divine Dispensations

by Patrick Fairbairn

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Genres: Theology, Christianity, Religion

430 pages, 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.

[Russell Hayes · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was expecting a book about types. I did not get that.

It is more about the theory of types than types themselves. Later in the second book he did get to some types, but seemed to run out of room/time. Perhaps being less verbose in the first 75% would have helped.

I love old books, but there are better resources available for the topic at hand.

[Josiah Bates · Rating 4 out of 5]

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