The Propositional Approach to Reading Scripture

Today generally speaking my reading of the way scripture is interpreted, there's been a significant move to let's call it a propositional approach. Evangelical and Protestant readings don't stay there, they allow for some supernatural aspects of the Old Testament particularly things that are seen as messianic prophecies. So what I want to do in this talk is just open up that world of allegory, a world that we could also call a world of metaphor and imagery. Open that up a bit more,. I want to defend it, I want to make some clarifying points about it and then return and finish by saying well what if we tried to apply this kind of patristic allegorical reading