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From: "H Dorrington" <hjdinfl@...>
> What of Beale should I be reading?

The Temple and the Church's Mission.  He doesn't discuss as much method, but
following the themes with him through the canon (on the tabernacle/temple)
is "Vos in action".

> I can remember browsing through a bookstore and seeing a title of a book
that was something like "Finding Christ in the Old Testament" are you
familiar with the >booking I am remembering?

The only book I can think of with that title is in the subtitle: "Ancient
Love Song: Finding Christ in the Old Testament" by Charles Drew.  Good
book... it is a summary book that covers a lot of ground.  He sees the Old
Testament as a development of our heavenly marriage, which is good, although
I tend to think the development of the Messianic is a little broader (New
Creation).

>I brushed past it thinking it was about the Christophanies of the Old
>Testament but now I am thinking it might be about more.

It is.

>I would be
>interested in reading about the hidden Christ of the Old Testament. Does
>Beale have such a book?

Beale is the editor of a book on hermeneutics that is hard to come by: Right
Doctrine from the Wrong Texts.  I had to buy mine from the Wheaton
bookstore.  There are others that are more specifically Christological.
Goldsworthy, an Anglican sympathetic to Vos, has written a very
understandable "Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture".
Clowney's "Preaching Christ in all of Scripture" also comes to mind.

> Where about
>in Xenia do you live?

One block from Emmanuel Bapt. in Xenia, off of South Detroit (385).

Who turned off the heat down here?  Good thing I brought my Bengals blanket.
:-)

Chad Bresson
Xenia, OH