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The principal difference between these two variants of covenant theology is their understanding of the Covenant of Grace. Standard Westminster covenant theology sees the Covenant of Grace beginning with the Fall in Genesis 3, and continuing through the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, under the same "substance" but different "administrations ...
The Abrahamic covenant (as distinct from the Mosaic) is taken to be the central Old Testament covenant that is fulfilled in the New Testament, in accordance with Pauline theology (Galatians 3:6-29). The Old and New Testaments are taken to be integrally related through the sequence of covenants, with prophetic fulfillment understood chiefly in ...
Republication is form of Christian covenant theology where the works principle of the covenant of works was republished in some way in the Mosaic covenant. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The view is popular among academics of the Westminster Seminary California and was popularized by American theologian Meredith Kline .
New Covenant theology (or NCT) is a Christian theological position teaching that the person and work of Jesus Christ is the central focus of the Bible. [1] One distinctive assertion of this school of thought is that Old Testament Laws have been abrogated [2] [3] or cancelled [4] with Jesus's crucifixion, and replaced with the Law of Christ of the New Covenant.
Baptist covenant theology (credobaptist) is distinct from Westminsterian covenant theology, and finds its most influential expression in the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689. [1] There exist two forms of Baptist covenant theology: the "1689 Federalism" of the Second London Confession, and a more recent 20th century form. [2]
Benedict holds that Christology must be rooted in the covenantal theology of the New Testament, which is grounded in the unity of the entire Bible. In this covenantal theology, the Abrahamic covenant, as fulfilled by the new covenant, is seen as fundamental and enduring, whereas the Mosaic covenant is intervening (Rom. 5:20).
Samuel Petto (c. 1624–1711) was an English Calvinist, a Cambridge graduate, and an Independent Puritan clergyman who primarily ministered in Sudbury, Suffolk.He was a prolific theologian who made a notable contribution to the development of British covenant theology by describing the link between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace and also demonstrating the relationship between ...
Due to the theological claims among some in New Covenant Theology, particularly regarding a covenant at creation with Adam and the active obedience of Christ, Wellum decided to disconnect the movements in his latter work of collected essays titled, Progressive Covenantalism: Charting a Course Between Dispensational and Covenantal Theologies [5 ...