“As everyone knows, the rallying cry of the Reformation was ‘the one sense of Scripture,’ the sole authority of the literal meaning . . . this precept by no means led to prosaic literalism. As we shall see in more detail later, the tirades against medieval allegorizing leveled by Luther, Tyndal, Calvin, Perkins, and many others were accompanied by clear recognition of the prevalence of typological symbolism in scripture” (Lewalski, Protestant Poetics, p. 77).
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If you are listening, Pastor Wilson, how do you judge whether typology is being correctly used or not? For instance, how are we to judge how Roman Catholics use typology for their Marian dogmas?