Scriptural Typology and Allegory in Liturgical Prayer

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This and subsequent citations are taken from the New Revised Standard Version.

For a careful analysis and interpretation of Paul's allegory, see Richard B. Hays, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989), 111–21.

Augustine, The First Catechetical Instruction [De Catechizandis Rudibus], trans. Joseph P. Christopher (New York: Newman Press, [1978]), III.6 and IV.8, 20, 23.

On the Orthodox retention of patristic hermeneutics and exegesis, see chapters 2 and 3 in John Breck's Scripture in Tradition: The Bible and Its Interpretation in the Orthodox Church (Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2001), 33–66.

“Easter Even,” The Sarum Missal in English, trans. Frederick E. Warren, part 1 (London: Alexander Moring; The De La More Press, 1911), 275. This translation was taken from a folio printed edition of 1526. For a Latin text, see J. Wickham Legg, The Sarum Missal Edited from Three Early Manuscripts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916).

The Sarum Missal in English, 275.

Ibid., 335.

Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, Holy Euchologion, 3rd ed. (Kitchener, Ontario: Saint Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church, 2004), 127–8.

The Roman Missal (Washington, D.C.: USCCB, 2011), 641.

The Roman Missal Adapted to the Use of the Laity from the Missale Romanum, 27th ed. (Toronto: W. E. Blake & Son, n.d.), 23.

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Book of Common Worship (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993), 143.

The United Methodist Book of Worship (Nashville: The United Methodist Publishing House, 1992), 64.

The Episcopal Church, The Book of Common Prayer (New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1979), 219.

The Festal Menaion, trans. Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware (South Canaan, Penn.: St. Tikhon's Seminary Press, 1998), 276, Canticle Six, First Canon.

Ibid., 280, Canticle Eight, First Canon.

The Roman Missal Adapted to the Use of the Laity from the Missale Romanum, 180.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Book of Common Worship, 189.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Minneapolis: Augsburg Press, 2006), 25.

The Sarum Missal in English, 89, 170, 357, 413.

Ibid., 56–57.

Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, The Book of Common Prayer (New York: The Church Pension Fund, 1928), 105.

See Elizabeth Theokritoff, “Praying the Scriptures in Orthodox Worship,” in Orthodox and Wesleyan Scriptural Understanding and Practice, ed. S. T. Kimbrough (Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2005), 83–86.

The Lenten Triodion, trans. Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware (South Canaan, Penn.: St. Tikhon's Seminary Press, 2002), 236, Vespers, Tone Two (by Joseph).

Ibid., 202, Great Compline, Monday in the First Week, Canticle Four.

Ibid., 256, Great Compline, Thursday in the First Week, Canticle One.

Theokritoff, “Praying the Scriptures in Orthodox Worship,” 86.

For advocacy of the recovery of allegorical and typological interpretations, see, for example, the essays by Luke Timothy Johnson, “Imagining the World Scripture Imagines,” Modern Theology 14, no. 2 (April 1998): 165–80; Robert Louis Wilken, “In Defense of Allegory,” Modern Theology 14, no. 2 (April 1998): 197–212; and Mark S. Burrows, “‘To Taste with the Heart': Allegory, Poetics, and the Deep Reading of Scripture,” Interpretation 56, no. 2 (April 2002): 168–80.

Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, The Book of Common Prayer (1928), 92.

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Karen B. Westerfield Tucker

Karen B. Westerfield Tucker is Professor of Worship at Boston University.