John Calvin's use and hermeneutics of the Old Testament.

John Calvin's use of the Old Testament reveals his deep
commitment to it. Calvin made use of the Old Testament in all
areas of his life and work as a Reformer. However, the
continued use of the Old Testament within the Christian Church
of the 16th Century was not without its problems. Calvin
discerned in the approach to the Old Testament taken by the
Anabaptists and the Roman Catholics what he saw as a
'Judaizing' tendency. Calvin's own approach and understanding
of the Old Testament was shaped by his confrontation with these
groups and his perception of their 'Judaizing' of the Old
Testamegt. His Old Testament hermeneutics were in part an
attempt to appropriate the Old Testament for the Christian
Church. For Calvin the Old Testament belongs to the Christian
Church because Christ is present in it. Hence Calvin's
fundamental hermeneutical goal is to read the Old Testament
with the aim of finding Christ. This goal, however, does not
lead Calvin into an allegorical method of Old Testament
exegesis. On the contrary, Calvin repudiates allegory and
adheres tenaciously to the literal meaning of the Old Testament
as discovered by a grammatical-historical form of exegesils.
Calvin's historical-grammatical exegesis, however, seems A be in
tension with his hermeneutical presupposition of reading the
Old Testament with the aim of finding Christ there. This
tension is overcome by the twin ideas of accommodation and
typology which in Calvin's Old Testament Hermeneutics form a
bridge between his christological hermeneutical goal and his
exegetical method. Calvin's doctrine of the unity of the two
Testaments can be seen to be in full harmony with his Old
Testament hermeneutics and is in fact their quintessence. Thus
for Calvin the Old Testament is emphatically Scripture for the
Church of Christ.