The Early Church and Its Foundational Dogmas
Rev. Angus Stewart examines the covenant as central to Reformed theology, demonstrating how it pervades all major theological loci from the doctrine of God through eschatology. The article traces the biblical foundations of the covenant as a bond of friendship between the Triune God and His elect people, using covenant symbolism (marriage, father-son relationship, and temple imagery) to illustrate its intimate nature and culmination in the Incarnation and future consummation.
Rev. Angus Stewart (Slightly modified from articles first published in the British Reformed Journal) In the previous article, I wrote of the importance of the doctrine of the covenant and the idea of the development of doctrine. I also presented three lines of support for the position that the covenant is a bond of friendship between the Triune God and His elect people in Jesus Christ. First, the covenant formula, “They will be my people and I will be their God,” speaks of the covenant in...