John Calvin’s Integrated Covenant Theology (2): The Nature of the Covenant

A long history has marked the analysis of the covenants in terms of mutual compacts or contracts. But recent scholarship has established rather certainly the sovereign character of the administration of the divine covenants in Scripture. Both biblical and extra-biblical evidence point to the unilate

Modern Heresies: Errors in Covenant Theology (3)

1) God's covenant is a bond of fellowship between God and His people in Christ, in which God takes His people into His own triune covenant life and dwells with them in a bond of peace and love as a husband dwells with his wife in the unity of one flesh. 2) God created Adam to live in such fellowshi

Stories of Grace: PRCA 100th Anniversary Commemorative, 1925-2025

Reformed Theology, Vol. 1

The Covenant: God’s Tabernacle With Men

Here, then, we meet with the notion that the covenant is something additional and secondary, a means to an end, a way of life, a device unto salvation. And since then this has become the prevailing conception of the covenant. To avoid giving to this essay the appearance of a theological treatise, I

Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel (13)

Here and there, men are also voicing dissatisfaction with the conception of the, covenant as a mutual compact or agreement of God and men and are moving towards a doctrine of the covenant that approximates Hoeksema's bond of love and friendship. The Presbyterian theologian, John Murray, in a work ca

The Development of the Doctrine of the Covenant (1)

23 23 23 23 23 A third strand in the argument that the covenant is communion with God is found in the symbols and figures that the Word of God uses to shadow forth that blessed reality. First, Godís relationship to His covenant people Israel is that of a Father and His son (Ex. 4:22-23; Jer. 31:9).

Covenant Courtship (7) Subjection to the Head

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The Covenant and the Idea of Doctrinal Development

A third strand in the argument that the covenant is communion with God is found in the symbols and figures that the Word of God uses to shadow forth that blessed reality. First, God’s relationship to His covenant people Israel is that of a Father and His son (Ex. 4:22-23; Jer. 31:9). There is a stro

Lessons From Our Beginning: What 1924 Has to Teach Us Today Concerning our Calling as “Spiritual Youth in a Carnal World”

Over against notions of the covenant as a pact or agreement between God and men or of the essence of the covenant being a general conditional promise, our churches have set forth the Scriptural truth of Gods covenant as the gracious relation of living fellowship and friendship between God and His pe