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Showing 1 to 20 of 293 for “"covenant"”.
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My Blood of the Covenant: Reverberation of the New Covenant in Matthew’s Gospel
… 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 the Passover and the exodus to the inauguration of the (new) covenant. …
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God's Everlasting Covenant With Phinehas
… the impression that the promise of “everlasting covenant” with Phinehas has been reached under the Sinai covenant. On closer examination of the question, however, general agreement in fact counts for little. Rather, most of the questions on this point appear to be still open. The purpose of this …
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Medical covenant: a corrective vision?
… not without significant criticisms. The Medical Covenant is another method offered by William F. May and affirmed by others to be the "corrective lens" of contemporary bioethics. This dissertation seeks to contribute to the clarification project of the variegate bioethical methods, theories and …
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Hosea's contribution to Israel's covenant thought
Hosea’s Contribution to Israel’s Covenant Thought is an exploration of the unique contribution that Hosea made to the development of Israel’s covenant understanding. The study begins by surveying the meaning and development of covenant thought in the Old Testament with particular reference to the …
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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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The Fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant
The Davidic Covenant is a high point of the Old Testament as it sets up an expectation for a Davidic King that will rule over God's people. In addition to these promises, the Davidic Covenant anticipates the church of the New Testament to be a typological fulfillment of Old Testament promises. This …
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Politics and Covenant in the Divine Davidic Kinship: A Diachronic Approach to Covenant in the Book of Samuel
Since the Covenant Centrality movement of the late 20th century, Hebrew Bible scholarship has obsessed over categorising different covenants by their formal features, such as conditional and unconditional or unilateral and bilateral. However, these classifications assume that function follows form …
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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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A Christ-Centered Proclamation of the Abrahamic Covenant
… on the life of Abraham with an emphasis on God’s covenant with Abraham. The sermon series is entitled “Abraham & the God of Promise,” which captures both the biographical and covenantal focus of the series. Theologically, these sermons explain the role of Abraham in the biblical story and the …
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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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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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From This Day Forward: New Covenant Inauguration in 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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How lender-specific factors affect their covenant negotiation strategies
This study builds upon the debt covenant and banking literature to explore the empirical relationship between bank characteristics and debt covenants. With the use of different covenant restrictiveness proxies, in addition to different model specifications, the study that bank size, credit risk, …
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Teaching Covenant Church Membership at First Baptist Church Dalhart, TX
The purpose of this project is to teach covenant church membership at First Baptist Church in Dalhart, Texas. Chapter 1 described the context of FBCD and the project’s rationale. Four goals were set to guide the project’s design and implementation. Chapter 2 established the biblical and theological …
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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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Eternal Covenant: The Trinitarian Shape of an Historic Baptist Doctrine
This dissertation argues that the eternal covenant is the prism through which God manifests his triune glory in the missions of the Son and the Spirit. Negatively, this argument is made against the background of historical neglect of the doctrine since no Baptist has provided a substantial …
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The Sinaitic Covenant and Law in the Theology of Dispensationalism
… dispensational position concerning the Sinaitic covenant and law and to evaluate it. The design of the study includes three major sections: the historical (chaps. 2-3), the descriptive (chap. 4), and the critical (chaps. 5-6).</p> <p>Chapter 2 presents the meaning of Dispensationalism and briefly …
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Deepening Covenant Relationships at The Church On Randall Place, Pine, AZ
… 4 explains the four key phases of the "Deepening Covenant Relationship" project. Attention is given to the ten-week teaching series, and the development and implementation of the church membership curriculum and the church covenant. Finally this chapter describes the process of moving individuals …
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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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