How Firm a Foundation
Subtitle: The Dispensations in the Light of the Divine Covenants (Studies in Biblical Literature, 63)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780820469317
Subjects: Theology; History; Christianity - Theology - General; Religion; Religion - Theology; Bibles; Christian Theology - General; Biblical teaching; Biblical Studies - General; Covenants; Dispensationalism; Bible - General
Description: "Do covenants or dispensations structure the biblical revelation? The historic conflict between Covenant and Dispensational theology has resulted in a neglect of biblical covenants in Dispensationalism. As a corrective, this book offers a variant of Dispensationalism - designated Covenantal Dispensationalism. Analyzing both ancient Near Eastern and biblical covenants, this work clearly demonstrates that the character of each dispensation is the sum of the stipulations of the operative covenants. Therefore, this book concludes that covenants structure the biblical revelation and that resulting structure is Dispensationalism."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part 1 : The meaning of covenant.; title: Ancient Near Eastern covenants; title: Biblical covenants; title: Covenant as structure; title: Part 2 : The divine covenants.; title: The Edenic covenant; title: The Adamic covenant; title: The Noahic covenant; title: The Abrahamic covenant; title: The land covenant; title: The Davidic covenant; title: The new covenant; title: The Mosaic covenant; title: Part 3 : The dispensations in the light of the divine covenants.; title: The dispensation of innocence; title: The dispensation of conscience; title: The dispensation of human government; title: The dispensation of promise; title: The dispensation of law; title: The dispensation of grace; title: The dispensation of the kingdom; title: Part 4 : Conclusions.; title: Covenant and dispensation