This post reviews “Redemptive-Historic View” by Bryan Chapell in Scott M. Gibson’s and Matthew D.  Kim’s Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today.

I agree with Byran Chapell when he warns that the redemptive-historical view of forcing Christ into every text has “been abused, in ways that are now obvious to us, by ancient allegorism that sought to make Jesus ‘magically’ appear in every Bible passage through exegetical acrobatics that stretched logic, imagination, and credulity.”[1] This is a candid admission.