Without turning naively to the past, scholars and preachers of the Old Testament are once again making use of figuration—something the church had always done until the modern period. This enlargement of method comes about partly out of disappointment with the exclusive use of historical methods, for to read the Bible theologically for the guidance of its present readers requires more than historical description.
The 2006 Tyndale Conference on Biblical Interpretation, held at Tyndale University College in Toronto, Canada, focused on "figuration in biblical interpretation." The authors are the conference keynote speakers, Christopher Seitz and Ephraim Radner, as well as Tyndale faculty members in philosophy, history, Bible, and theology. There are also a few additional invited papers illustrating figural interpretation.
This volume is a window onto the current hermeneutic ferment within biblical studies, and its title is an invitation to sample and share the excitement!

Editor - Stanley D. Walters

"Reading the Old Testament as Christian Scripture remains one of the central challenges of ecclesially located and ecclesially minded biblical interpretation. Though the hegemony of historical criticism has aggravated the problem, this stimulating collection of essays demonstrates its prominence across the history of interpretation. Emphasizing especially the potential of figural readings both of Scripture and, indeed, within the pages of Scripture itself, Go Figure! presses the conversation forward through fresh reflections of a hermeneutical sort and through penetrating exegesis.
—Joel B. Green, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Fuller Theological Seminary

"This collection provides vigorous testimony to the diversity of interpretive possibilities in our time. Long-standing but often long-abandoned ways of reading Scripture are illustrated in accessible ways. The critical approach is not rejected, but it is broadened, and literal interpretation is seen to be much more than the surface reading to which we are accustomed. The essays found here do not provide a single methodology. On the contrary, readers will find themselves confronted with a variety of rich hearings of the Word."
—Patrick D. Miller, Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary

Practices, Politics, and Performance by Dr. Michael G. Cartwright
European Pietism Reviewed by Frederick Herzog
Constructing a Relational Cosmology
The Little Church that Refused to Die by William W. Moore
Ambushed by Grace by Dr. Thomas W. Currie
The Will of God and the Cross by Jonathan H. Rainbow
Christ in our Place: The Humanity of God in Christ for the Reconciliation of the World
"Education Has Nothing to Do with Theology" by Dr. Edward J. Newell
A Little Book of Christian Questions and Responses by Theodore Beza
Poverty in the Theology of John Calvin by Dr. Bonnie L. Pattison
Evangelicalism and Karl Barth by Phillip R. Thorne
The Triune God by E. L. Mascall
Theosis
Orthodoxy and Difference by Dr. Dmitri Sidorov
Faithfulness and the Purpose of Hebrews by Matthew J. Marohl
The Holy Spirit and the Renewal of All Things by T. David Beck
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis by Trevor Dobbs Ph.D.
Coram Deo by Caryn D. Riswold
The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1850-1875 by Ralph M. Wiltgen
The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Karl Barth by John Thompson
Geoffrey Fisher by David Hein
My Father-In-Law by Max Zellweger-Barth
On the Christianity of Theology by Franz Overbeck
Critical Realism and the New Testament by Ben F. Meyer
Female and Male: The Cultic Personnel: The Bible and the Rest of the Ancient Near East by Richard A. Henshaw
The Loss and Recovery of Transcendence by John C. Robertson
Calvin's Doxology by Pamela Ann Moeller
Fire From the Heights by Moelwyn Merchant
Jesus Christ and Creation in the Theology of John Calvin by Peter Wyatt
Jesus, the Parable of God by Dr. Eduard Schweizer
Jesus and the Word by C. K. Barrett
"Those Who Call Themselves Jews" by Dr. Philip L. Mayo
Consenting to God and Nature by Dr. Byron C. Bangert
The Tondrakian Movement by N.V. Nersessian
The Aims of Jesus by Ben F. Meyer
A Gentleman in Every Slum by David B. McIlhiney
How to do Biblical Theology by Peter Stuhlmacher
Where is My Home? by Dr. Zdenek Bednar
Asian Contextual Theology for the Third Millennium
Searching for Lost Coins by Ann Loades
Tradition Renewed
Risking Truth by Scott A. Ellington
The Arminian Confession of 1621
Theology of Anticipation by Anette Ejsing
Renewing Tradition
R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God by D.Z. Phillips
Theology Beyond Christendom
Schleiermacher on Christian Consciousness of God's Work in History by Abraham Varghese Kunnuthara
Colonial Presbyterianism
The Kitchen Saint and the Heritage of Islam by Brother Lawrence
Basic Human Rights and the Humanitarian Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa by Gabriel Andrew Msoka
The Trinitarian Self by Charles Bellinger
The Sacred Text by Ronald F. Satta
The Diffusion of Ecclesiastical Authority by Darin H. Land
Lo, I Tell You a Mystery by Dr. David A. Ackerman
The Tangled Bank by Michael S. Hogue
The Hermeneutical Quest
Christus Faber by Ben F. Meyer
History and Theology by Dr. Piet B. Boshoff
Martin Luther and Buddhism by Paul S. Chung
New Testament Traditions and Apocryphal Narratives by Francois Bovon
Polemic in the Book of Hebrews by Lloyd Kim
A Place Somewhat Apart by Dr. Philip E. Harrold
The Epigones by William A. McComish
Freedom and Civilization Among the Greeks by A. J. Festugiere
Go Figure!
Jeshua by Moelwyn Merchant
Salvaging Wesley's Agenda by Kevin Twain Lowery
The Trial of Jesus Continues by Dr. Rudolf Pesch
The Reformed Pastor by John W. Nevin D.D.
Enigmas and Powers
Revitalizing Theological Epistemology by Steven B. Sherman
Speculative Theology and Common-Sense Religion by Linden J. DeBie
Cross in Tensions by Philip Ruge-Jones
A Church Historian's Odyssey by Horton Davies
The Neo-Orthodox Theology of W. W. Bryden by John Vissers
Who Needs a New Covenant? by Michael D. Morrison
God With Us by Joseph Haroutunian
Saints: Visible, Orderly, and Catholic by Alan P.F. Sell
Schleiermacher's Preaching, Dogmatics, and Biblical Criticism by Catherine L. Kelsey
Living Devotions by Mary Clark Moschella
From the Margins
Calvin's Concept of the Law by Dr. I. John Hesselink
The Present and the Past by Richard J. Ginn
The Way of Theology in Karl Barth
Seasons of the Heart by Sara Henderson Hay
The Subjective Eye
Gladstone: The Making of a Christian Politician by Dr. Peter J. Jagger
On This Rock by Donald G. Miller
The Theology of Electricity by Ernst Benz
Reflections of Renaissance England by Dr. Marie-Helene Davies