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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Covenant theology."”.
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The Covenant Theology of Zacharias Ursinus
This study is an examination of the covenant theology of Zacharias Ursinus, which in many ways broke new ground for the development of Federal Theology in the sixteenth century with his introduction of the foedus naturale. For the first time in its development he describes the prelapsarian economy …
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Meditative poetry, covenant theology, and Lucy Hutchinson's order and disorder.
… study of Independent theologian John Owen's covenant theology informed her narration of the events in Genesis. I offer a reading of the poem as a whole to show how these claims illuminate Hutchinson's construal of Genesis. These claims permit me to engage scholarly literature on three heads. …
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Divine and Human Agency by Means of the Covenant: The Anti-Pelagian Theology of John Owen
… through divine and human agencies in the covenant. Owen was anti-Pelagian despite his emphasis on human agency in the covenant because of the divine agency of the Spirit. Owen was anti-Pelagian not despite but because of divine sovereignty. Chapter 2 examined the anti-Pelagian soteriology …
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A Historical, Biblical, and Theological Interpretation of Covenants: Unconditionality and Conditionality in Relation to Justification and Sanctification
… sanctification, union with Christ, and covenant theology. It is comprised of four main parts, set forth with the thesis that the nature of the biblical covenants God makes with humans is both unconditional and conditional (or unilateral and bilateral), which undergirds the two basic …
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Sons of God: The New Covenant Reality Of Adoption In Christ
Adoption as sons is a new covenant reality that is not fully experienced by Old Testament saints as it is merely foreshadowing what is to come in Christ as the mediator of a new covenant. Covenant theology is evaluated, and a different way forward is presented to show what Old Testament Saints …
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From Mitzvot to Agape.
… Judaism. Emphasis is placed on adherence to the Covenant through the conscious act of love, stemming from the Levitical law “to love your neighbor as yourself.” Examination begins with the Babylonian Exile, and concludes with the First Jewish War with Rome. Attention is placed on the Pharisaic …
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The contribution of Scottish covenant thought to the discussions of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1648) and its continuing significance to the Marrow controversy (1717-1723)
… to examine the development and significance of covenant doctrine in the Scottish Church during the struggles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This development is examined in its political, historical, social, theological and ecclesiastical context. The idea of covenant is central in …
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"The Fountain of Life": John Gill’s Doctrine of Christ's Eternal Sonship
… Reformed direction by appropriating it into his covenant theology.
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Intersecting religion and culture: A comparative study of circumcision rites in the Old Testament and Yorùbá culture
… is established as a divinely instituted covenantal sign marking Israel's identity as God's chosen people. Within this framework, circumcision becomes a theological symbol of obedience, purity, and inclusion in the covenant community, further enhanced by texts like Leviticus 12, which …
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The theology of William Tyndale
… I-V) considers possible sources of Tyndale's theology. There were influences from Lollardy, Erasmus, and Luther, however, Tyndale modified these sources where he disagreed with their theology, rejecting everything he believed was unfaithful toScripture.The second part of the thesis (chapters …
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C. M. Sedgwick's 'Patient Investigation' of America's Past: An Intertextual Study of Hope Leslie
… use of history to represent the federal covenant theology of the Puritan past and to explore the potential for religious tolerance. Chapter four focuses on the fictional characters while chapter five examines Sedgwick's use of historical persons and events in Hope Leslie . Chapter six …
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Covenant Nation: The Politics of Grace in Early American Literature
… is that a critical reading of the concept of "covenant" in early American writings is instrumental to understanding the paradoxes in the American political concepts of freedom and equality. Following Slavoj Zizek's theoretical approach to theology, I trace the covenant concept in early American …
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Bound for the Kingdom: The Land Promise in God's Redemptive Plan
… the biblical-theological framework from which a theology of land can be canonically understood. More specifically, the framework for understanding the place, or land, of God's people is the kingdom. God's kingdom commences in Eden, and after the fall of mankind into sin God's kingdom will come …
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Cosmic Conflict as a Hermeneutical Framework for Mission Theology in the Old Testament
… assumptions that influence Old Testament mission theology and evaluates ways in which current theologies of mission and theological currents relate to the unity and continuity of the Bible. With this background, the study then proposes a comprehensive theological framework that preserves the unity …
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Crowned with Immortal Glory: Eschatalogical Hope in the Spirituality of William Perkins
… will affect every aspect of one’s overarching theology, especially the doctrine of soteriology. What one ultimately believes about the future will significantly impact their present. This study shows that this neglect or lack of development has not always been the case within the church, …
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The Israel-Christ-Church Typological Pattern: A Theological Critique of Covenant and Dispensational Theologies
… that the reigning systems of evangelical theology—covenant and dispensational theology—have improperly formulated their ecclesiologies with respect to the Israel-church relationship. Chapter 1 surveys the importance of typology in the covenant and dispensational debate and presents a …
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Unity and continuity in covenantal thought : a study in the reformed tradition to the Westminster Assembly
… for detailed discussions of the development of covenantal thought, particularly in view of the direction taken by recent studies which place a strong dichotomy between the early Reformers and their seventeenth-century successors, notably between John Calvin and those who have traditionally been …
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Covenantal Ethics: A Living System for Living Systems
<p>Covenantal ethics is a living system for living systems. We humans are not simple, isolated individuals living stagnant, dead lives. Rather we are immersed in a complex system of living, glowing and developing interpersonal relationships with others. Philosophy in general and ethics in …