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- Nov 16, 2022Week 10: Typology in the Mosaic Covenant
- Nov 9, 2022Week 9: The Sacrificial System
- Nov 2, 2022Week 8: The Abrahamic Covenant Expanded in Moses
Nov 2, 2022Week 8: The Abrahamic Covenant Expanded in Moses
- Oct 26, 2022Week 7: Grace and Works in the Abrahamic Covenant
- Oct 12, 2022Week 6: The Old Covenant Promised & Established
- Oct 5, 2022Week 5: The Covenant of Common Grace
- Sep 28, 2022Week 4: Judgment, Redemption, Re-Creation
- Sep 21, 2022Week 3: The Covenant of Life
- Sep 14, 2022Week 2: The Kingdom Prototype
- Sep 7, 2022Week 1 – What is Covenant Theology and Why Study It?
Sep 7, 2022Week 1 – What is Covenant Theology and Why Study It?By: Luke GriffoCovenant and Kingdom Week 1 - What is Covenant Theology and Why Study It? Hebrews 10:19-25
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- Why study covenant theology?
- Properly understanding covenant gives us deeper grounds for greater assurance of our faith, and a greater appreciation of God’s wisdom and faithfulness
- Covenant is the way that God relates to man and the way that the members of the Godhead relate to one another
- Helps us to see the fullness, scope, continuity, authority, and applicability of all of Scripture
- Helps to provide a framework for understanding the whole of Scripture in its context
- What is covenant theology?
- The study and explanation of the united purpose of God in all history past, present , and future (Samuel Renihan)
- A framework for biblical interpretation, informed by exegetical, biblical, and systematic theology, that recognizes that the redemptive history revealed in Scripture is explicitly articulated through a succession of covenants, thus providing an organizing principle for biblical theology (Ligon Duncan)
- Strong emphasis on the historical development and outworking of God’s redemptive plan
- Considers and impacts various branches of theology, thus it is important that we carefully consider it and understand it
- Key terms/concepts
- Why study covenant theology?
- Covenant - A commitment guaranteed by a solemn oath, with the threat of [divine] sanctions
- Typology - The study of analogical correspondence among revealed truths about persons, events, institutions, and other things within the historical framework of God’s special revelation, which, from a retrospective view, are of a prophetic nature and are escalated in their meaning (Greg Beale)
- Federal Head - One covenant representative whom God deals with and who connects all those under his headship to the covenant
- Covenants of Works - Covenants in which promised blessings are received on the basis of works done
- Covenants of Grace - Covenants in which promised blessings are received on the basis of free grace as a gift
- Kingdom/Dominion - Covenants delegate authority, grant dominion over a particular sphere
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- What makes a covenant?
- Sanctions - Threats that enforce and ensure the fulfillment of covenant commitments
- Precepts - The covenant law/obligations
- Promises - Blessings of the covenant
- Federal Head
- Delegation of Dominion
- Major covenants of Scripture
- Kingdom of Creation
- Covenant of Life, Noahic Covenant
- Kingdom of Israel
- Abrahamic Covenant, Mosaic Covenant, Davidic Covenant
- Kingdom of Christ
- Covenant of Redemption, New Covenant
- Kingdom of Creation
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