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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"New Covenant"”.
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The Church as the New Covenant Community
This project explores the new covenant community, identified by ἐκκλησία, and translated as church. Chapter 1 introduces the new covenant community which consist of all new covenant recipients. Chapter 2 surveys biblical covenants which provide the basis for the physical rule of Christ on earth. …
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The gift of prophecy in the New Covenant.
… concludes that intertestamental Judaism, the old covenant scriptures and the experiences of Christians formed the background to New Testament thought regarding prophecy, and the scriptures particularly encouraged a hope for widespread prophecy in the eschaton. Chapter three examines new covenant …
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From This Day Forward: New Covenant Inauguration in Hebrews
… Hebrews presents Jesus as having inaugurated the new covenant at the cross. Building on the work of David Moffitt and R. B. Jamieson, I explore this topic, asking when and where the new covenant was inaugurated in Hebrews. I examine the covenant inauguration narrative in Exodus 24, the timing of …
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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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Jesus the bridegroom: a metaphor of fidelity in the New Covenant
The New Testament sets up the metaphor of Jesus the Bridegroom and the Church his Bride, but the contemporary interpretations are varied and extreme. Single women proclaim Jesus is their Boyfriend while they wait for their real husbands. Authors advocate dressing up and going out on romantic dates …
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Penal Substitutionary Atonement as the Basis for New Covenant and New Creation
… substitutionary atonement is necessary for the new creation. The new covenant promises are inaugurated at Jesus’ death and at Pentecost when the Spirit indwells Christians; the promises are consummated in the new heavens and the new earth. Jesus says that his death inaugurates the new covenant …
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A New Covenant hermeneutic : the use of Scripture in Hebrews 8-10.
… work of Christ: sanctuary, sacrifice and covenant. Chapter Three works through the main theological section of Heb. 9:1- Jo: i8, in which the old and new sanctuaries, sacrifices and covenants are compared. Chapter Four examines Heb. 10:19-39, a section of paraenesis that grows out of the …
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My Blood of the Covenant: Reverberation of the New Covenant in Matthew’s Gospel
… in the future. Such recapitulation involves a new deliverance in a new Passover, new exodus, and climaxing in a new covenant. As such, the mention of the covenant in Matthew, the declaration “τὸ αἷμά μου τῆς διαθήκης,” is the climax of a narrative progression from Abraham to the Messiah, from …
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Covenantal Culmination: Why the New Covenant Documents Signify the Cessation of Normative Post-Apostolic Revelation
… should not be a normative expectation for New Covenant believers on the basis of the intersection between covenant, canon, and the function of prophecy. Chapter 1 addresses relevant material to this conversation, revealing the unique need for Baptistic scholarship on this subject. Chapter 2 …
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Do Good to All People as You Have the Opportunity: A Biblical Theology of the Good Deeds Mission of the New Covenant Community
… theology of the good deeds mission of the New Covenant community, with a particular focus on how one’s conception of the overall covenantal structure of Scripture affects one’s conclusions concerning the good deeds mission. Chapter 1 introduces the debate over the good deeds mission of the …
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My Blood of the (New) Covenant: An Assessment of René Girard's Soteriology in Light of the Covenantal Milieu of the Last Supper Sayings
… the exile, including the reconstitution of its covenantal relationship with YHWH, as they are articulated in the Old Testament and intertestamental literature in order to establish the historical and theological context for reading the Gospels. After identifying the core components of …
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The Catholicity of the Church: Pneumatological Exclusivism for the Universal Presence of Christ in the People of God
… and salvation of the church catholic of the new covenant. In chapter 1, this dissertation provides an outline of this project containing its thesis, methodology, history of research, significance, and argument. In chapter 2, this dissertation demonstrates pneumatological exclusivism for the …
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Life in his name: water, the Spirit and the covenant people of God in the Gospel of John
… symbol in the Gospel of John in light of the OT covenant. It offers an overview of the Sinaitic covenant, the use and meaning of water, and the presentation of the Spirit and his anticipated work in the new covenant in the OT, followed by an examination of the water-Spirit texts of John’s Gospel. …
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The Guardian-Priesthood, the Special Presence of God, and Church Discipline: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Priesthood
… (chapter 4), Jesus Christ (chapter 5), the new covenant people of God (chapter 6), and the eschatological people of God (chapter 7). Chapter 8 offers a summary of the dissertation, along with concluding thoughts. From beginning to end, this dissertation traces the historical development of …
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Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical Theology for Students at Lincroft Bible Church in Lincroft, New Jersey
… to middle and high school students, using the covenants as the organizing principle. Chapter 1 defines biblical theology and demonstrates why the covenants are crucial for constructing an accurate metanarrative of the Bible. Chapter 2 establishes the presence of a covenant in creation and shows …
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Covenant and Identity Formation in the Second Century
This study examines the use of the covenant concept in second-century texts that address three primary social and rhetorical contexts for early Christian identity formation: Judaism, Greco-Roman culture, and heterodoxy. It argues that leading Christian writers consistently developed and applied a …
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An Argument for Close Communion in Baptist Life
… to it, due to the explicit example of the New Testament, the assumed pattern that all believers are baptized, and a principle of analogy (continuity) from the necessity of circumcision before Passover. Chapter 1 surveys the ecclesiological landscape for answers to the question of who may …
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"Confident of Better Things": Assurance of Salvation in the Letter to the Hebrews
… of the perfection of believers and the new covenant promises, as well as the author's confidence, God's promise, and the believer's hope in Hebrews 6:9-20. Chapter 2 examines the concept of perfection in Hebrews--with respect to Christ and believers--and specifically considers its …
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