John Calvin’s Integrated Covenant Theology (2): The Nature of the Covenant
Rev. Angus Stewart examines John Calvin's understanding of the covenant's nature, exploring how Calvin's conception was shaped by medieval political theory, legal frameworks, and lexicographical sources of his era. Stewart argues that while Calvin was biblically sound in treating covenant unity, diversity, and progression, there is room for correction and development in how Calvin understood the fundamental nature of the covenant itself.
Rev. Angus Stewart (Slightly modified from an article first published in the Protestant Reformed Theological Journal) While Calvin is both clear and biblical in his treatment of covenant unity, covenant diversity, covenant hermeneutics and covenant progression, with the benefit of some four and a half centuries since his death, we shall see that there is room for some correction and development as to his conception of the nature of the covenant.1 Calvin on the Nature of the Covenant It is...