Heinrich Bullinger’s covenant view
This article examines Heinrich Bullinger's groundbreaking development of covenant theology during the Reformation, highlighting how he wrote the first complete treatise on the covenant of grace and viewed it as the overarching framework of all Scripture. The resource shows how Bullinger's covenant doctrine emerged partly as a polemical response to Anabaptist errors, particularly regarding the unity of God's eternal covenant and the inclusion of believers' children within it.
Development of Bullinger's view The doctrine of the covenant has occupied a large place in the development of the Reformed faith since the days of the Reformation. Much of the impetus for this development is to be credited to the Swiss Reformers, particularly to Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575). More than anyone before him, he gave a large place to the doctrine of the covenant. Bullinger was the first Reformed theologian to write an entire treatise on the covenant of grace. His De Testamento Seu...
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