The covenant of redemption : origins, development, and reception /

The covenant of redemption : origins, development, and reception /

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Author / Creator:Fesko, J. V.
Imprint:Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2016]
Description:256 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Reformed historical theology ; volume 35
V & R Academic
Reformed historical theology ; volume 35.
V&R academic.
Subject:
Redemption -- Reformed Church.
Reformed Church -- Doctrines.
Covenant theology.
Reformed Church -- Doctrines.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10530286
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ISBN:9783525550984
3525550987
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Standard no.:9783525550984
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • State of the Question
  • Argument for retrieval
  • Aim of the present study
  • Plan for the present study
  • Conclusion
  • 1. Historical Origins
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. David Dickson's speech
  • 1.3. Herman Witsius and the sources of the pactum salutis
  • 1.4. Early references to an intra-trinitarian covenant
  • 1.5. A key exegetical turning point
  • 1.6. The doctrine's birth and refinement
  • 1.7. Conclusion
  • 2. Seventeenth-Century England and Scotland
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Definition of a covenant
  • 2.3. The pactum salutis and its scriptural support
  • 2.4. The specific properties and elements of the pactum salutis
  • 2.4.1. Elements
  • 2.4.2. Properties
  • 2.5. Critical issues
  • 2.5.1. The role of the Holy Spirit
  • 2.5.2. Pactum salutis or covenant of grace?
  • 2.5.3. Motivated by love
  • 2.5.4. Pactum and revelation
  • 2.5.5. Incarnation, union, and communion
  • 2.5.6. Justification and imputation
  • 2.6. Conclusion
  • 3. Seventeenth-Century Continental Europe
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Exegesis
  • 3.3. Pactum salutis defined and explained
  • 3.4. Critical Issues
  • 3.4.1. Christ's merit and reward
  • 3.4.2. Covenant terminology
  • 3.4.3. Fideiussor or Expromisso?
  • 3.4.4. Active and passive justification
  • 3.5. Conclusion
  • 4. The Eighteenth Century
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. John Gill
  • 4.2.1. Structure of the covenant
  • 4.2.2. The role of the Holy Spirit
  • 4.2.3. The doctrine of justification
  • 4.3. Jonathan Edwards
  • 4.3.1. Pactum salutis
  • 4.3.2. Justification
  • 4.4. Analysis
  • 4.5. Conclusion
  • 5. The Nineteenth Century
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. The Intellectual Context
  • 5.3. Hodge on the pactum salutis
  • 5.4. Epistemology
  • 5.5. Justification and Soteriology
  • 5.5.1. Union with Christ
  • 5.5.2. The timing of justification
  • 5.5.3. Justification and the final judgment
  • 5.5.4. Faith as the instrument of justification
  • 5.6. Conclusion
  • 6. Twentieth-Century Critics
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Critics of the pactum salutis
  • 6.2.1. John Murray
  • 6.2.2. Herman Hoeksema
  • 6.2.3. Klaas Schilder
  • 6.2.4. Karl Barth
  • 6.3. Analysis
  • 6.3.1. Anti-Scholasticism
  • 6.3.2. Solus Calvinus
  • 6.4. Conclusion
  • 7. Twentieth-Century Proponents
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Proponents of the pactum salutis
  • 7.2.1. Vos, Kuyper, and Bavinck
  • 7.2.2. Berkhof and Berkouwer
  • 7.3. Critical Issues
  • 7.3.1. The ordo salutis
  • 7.3.2. Priority of the forensic in the ordo salutis
  • 7.3.3. Justification from eternity
  • 7.4. Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Author Index

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