'If the Bible is about Christ, some preachers and interpreters conclude that any direction application of Scripture to the life of the believer introduces works and threatens to collapse into moralism. Others preachers insist that the Bible be made practical, so that the stories of David are read not as foreshadowings of Christ but as stories that teach us courage, faith, and tricks for dealing with oppressive fathers-in-law and kings. The first has the head, the second has the body. Neither has the whole Christ.'
Peter Leithart in Jason B Hood, Imitating God in Christ, p.180.
