Colossians 1: 24-2: 7

Certainly the center of the entire canon is Jesus Christ, but Colossians 1:24-2:7 does not indicate exactly howto preach Christ. Johnson rightly goes no further than the text, but his overall work does go further. He believes Christ should be preached, in part, by revealing hidden typological meanings from the Old Testament (198-99) and his work rests upon a redemptive-historical hermeneutic. By devoting much ink to Paul’s preaching and then proposing these other elements, he links the two as if the Colossians passage supports all of his work. It does not.