American Literature / Unit 4 AML 0303 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Typology: Reading the World as a Sign
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The idea
Puritans read events as signs, matching their lives to scripture: a crossing became an exodus, a wilderness a testing, a plague a rebuke. The habit is typology, and it explains why these writers move from a burnt house to a doctrine.
In practice
The event, and the scripture it repeats.
Where people slip
The personal detail is always going somewhere.
Your place on the trail
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