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CONTENTS ARTICLES Introduction to the Volume ................................................................... 1 STR Editor What Designates a Valid Type? A Christotelic, Covenantal Proposal ..................................................................................................... 3 David Schrock Provision of Food and Clothing for the Wandering People of God: A Canonical and Salvation-Historical Study ......................27 David Wenkel Vocal Exegesis: Reading Scripture Publicly without the Heresy of Boredom .............................................................................................47 Grenville J.R. Kent On “Seeing” what God is “Saying”: Rereading Biblical Narrative in Dialogue with Kevin Vanhoozer’s Remythologizing Theology .........61 Richard S. Briggs Spiritual Formation and Leadership in Paul’s Address to the Ephesian Elders (Acts 20:17–35) .........................................................83 Christoph W. Stenschke The Portrait of the Readers Prior to Their Coming to Faith According to Ephesians ........................................................................97 Christoph W. Stenschke Book Reviews ....................................................................................... 119 BOOK REVIEWS Patrick Gray. Opening Paul’s Letters: A Reader’s Guide to Genre and Interpretation..................................................................................... 119 Timothy Gombis Khaldoun A. Sweis and Chad V. Meister. Christian Apologetics: An Anthology of Primary Sources ............................................................ 120 Scott Coley Thomas B. Dozeman, Thomas Römer, and Konrad Schmid. Pentateuch, Hexatuech, or Enneateuch? Identifying Literary Works in Genesis through Kings .............................................................................. 122 Tracy McKenzie 2 SOUTHEASTERN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW I. Howard Marshall, Volker Rabens, and Cornelis Bennema, eds. The Spirit and Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology: Essays in Honor of Max Turner ............................................................. 124 Matthew Y. Emerson Dwight J. Zscheile, ed. Cultivating Sent Communities: Missional Spiritual Formation ................................................................................. 126 Jim Shaddix C. Richard Wells and Ray Van Neste, eds. Forgotten Songs: Reclaiming the Psalms for Christian Worship ........................................... 128 Daniel J. Estes Thomas R. Schreiner, Luke Timothy Johnson, Douglas A. Campbell, and Mark D. Nanos, ed. Michael F. Bird. Four Views on the Apostle Paul .............................................................. 130 Marc A. Pugliese W. Stephen Gunter. Arminius and His “Declaration of Sentiments”: An Annotated Translation with Introduction and Theological Commentary ............................................................................................. 132 Ken Keathley Donald A. Hagner. The New Testament: A Historical and Theological Introduction ............................................................................ 134 Thomas W. Hudgins Jerram Barrs. Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts ............................................................................................ 136 Michael Travers Jeffrey P. Greenman and Timothy Larson, eds. The Decalogue through the Centuries: From the Hebrew Scriptures to Benedict XVI ....... 138 A.J. Culp David Dockery, ed. Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education ..................................................................... 140 Kenneth S. Coley C. Marvin Pate. Romans ....................................................................... 142 Alan S. Bandy James A. Patterson. James Robinson Graves: Staking the Boundaries of Baptist Identity................................................................... 144 Keith Harper Steven Boyer and Christopher Hall, The Mystery of God: Theology for Knowing the Unknowable ..................................................... 146 Jeremy Evans Francis J. Moloney. The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary .................. 148 Josh Chatraw STR 5/1 (Summer 2014) 1–2 Introduction to the Volume STR Editor The current volume of STR continues the theme of the previ- ous volume, STR 4/2 (2013), which centered upon “Theological Interpretation of Scripture” (hereafter “TIS”). In the previous edi- torial, I noted that Gordon McConville has dubbed the discipline of biblical theology as a “somewhat slippery creature,” a designa- tion which could be applied to TIS as well!1 In that edition, I high- lighted some reasons for its slipperiness: 1. It is not terribly new. 2. It is not distinctive methodologically. 3. It is not biblical (enough). 4. It is not theological (enough). Nonetheless, critiques against TIS may derive from those who quibble over the unapologetic nature of its practitioners to engage in biblical interpretation, which is theological, which informs the whole of life, as the Church listens for God’s voice in Scripture. In various ways, practitioners of TIS attempt to hear and “hearken unto” God’s voice in Holy Scripture. Each of the essays in this volume carry forward this program, though in different ways. If theological interpretation is interested in the interconnections in Scripture, how should one understand typology in particular? David Schrock asks this methodological and hermeneutical question. Schrock explores typology from exegetical- historical, covenantal, and theological basis. Schrock limits his study to persons who are “types” of Jesus Christ. He argues that a “valid Christological type must be textual in its origin, covenantal as to its theological import, and Christotelic in its teleological fulfill- ment.” Following upon Schrock, David Wenkel assesses the signif- icance of possessions (expressly “food” and “clothing”) in the life of the people of God. Wenkel uses a “whole-Bible” kind of biblical theology as a way to frame his study. Using this approach, he is able to determine a salvation-historical narrative structure to Scrip- ture and he argues that “God’s people have always been pilgrims 1 J. Gordon McConville, “Biblical Theology: Canon and Plain Sense (Finlayson Memorial Lecture 2001),” Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 19/2(2001): pp. 134–57 (134). 2 SOUTHEASTERN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW on this earth; this identity is the basis for the simple provision of food and clothing.” Grenville Kent provides techniques to read aloud Holy Scripture in the context of worship. As TIS is always interested in the link between Scripture and its ecclesial home, this essay is of interest in a practical theology of worship. Kent provoc- atively titles his approach to the public Scripture reading as “vocal exegesis.” Richard Briggs’ piece interacts thoroughly with Kevin Vanhoozer’s Remythologizing Theology, which was the topic of a pre- vious edition of the journal: STR 4/1(2013). Briggs’ concern is the- ological and hermeneutical through and through, asking what it means to hear (or see!) God speak in biblical narrative, and then what that might mean for modern Christian practice today. Follow- ing upon Briggs are two articles by Christoph Stenschke, the one dealing with spiritual formation of Christian leaders and the other dealing with how Paul portrays people prior to their conversions in his letter to the Ephesians. His two essays ask historical questions but then traverse to the present, linking the ancient text to the modern world because Stenschke takes seriously the New Testa- ment text as Holy Scripture. These essays, then, provide different examples of TIS in prac- tice. If that is true, then these essays highlight the fact that TIS cannot be calibrated to a method, as if TIS is one of the many tools one can just pull out of the scholar’s toolbox. Rather, TIS orients readers to hear Scripture for God’s voice. It will have hermeneuti- cal, theological, biblical, ecclesial, and contextual dimensions—any one of which should not be dismissed. But it will vary in terms of individual explorations. STR 5/1 (Summer 2014) 3–26 What Designates a Valid Type? A Christotelic, Covenantal Proposal David Schrock Calvary Baptist Church, Seymour, Indiana Introduction In the last decade a number of articles, chapters, and books have continued to debate the subject of typology.1 In particular, they have sought to answer the question: “What makes a person, event, or institution a type?” Or more exactly, “What designates a type hermeneutically valid?” For instance, in From Typology to Doxol- ogy: Paul’s Use of Isaiah and Job in Romans 11:34–35, Andrew Naselli laments the typological “abuses” some theologians have committed by “read[ing] a full-blown doctrine into earlier Scripture.”2 Against this anachronistic approach to typology, he gives four “clarifica- tions” to secure a type’s “hermeneutical warrant.”3 In his clarifica- 1 See most recently the essays in Heaven on Earth: Theological Interpreta- tion in Ecumenical Dialogue (ed. Hans Boersma and Matthew Levering; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), as well as, G. K. Beale, Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), pp. 13-27; Benjamin J. Ribbens, “Typology of Types: Typology in Dialogue,” JTI 5 (2011): pp. 81–95; James M. Hamilton, “The Typology of David’s Rise to Power: Messianic Patterns in the Book of Samu- el,” SBJT 16 (2012): pp. 4–25; A. B. Caneday, “Covenant Lineage Allegor- ically Prefigured: ‘Which Things Are Written Allegorically’ (Galatians