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The Origins of the Federal Theology in Sixteenth-Century Reformation Thought (Hardcover)
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The Origins of the Federal Theology in Sixteenth-Century Reformation Thought (Hardcover)
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The development of the Federal theology of the late sixteenth and
early seventeenth centuries was a significant transformation in
Reformed theological thinking. According to the Federal
theologians, all of human history could be described using the
rubric of a series of covenants, or foedera, beginning with a
`covenant of works' in the perfection of Eden and concluding with
the new covenant fulfilled by Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
The new covenant was in effect the conclusion of the `covenant of
grace', and it was this which united the Old and New Testaments
into one continuous epic of God's grace and mercy. While John
Calvin and many earlier Reformers discussed the importance of the
postlapsarian covenant of grace, they never taught the Federal
theology with its key identifying feature of a prelapsarian
covenant. This book traces the prelapsarian covenant idea in
Reformed theology from its first use by Zacharias Ursinus in 1562
to its flowering in 1590. Besides its origins, the implications of
the Federal theology for Reformed thinking are made clear, and it
is shown that the idea of covenant could have important
implications for areas such as church and state, the sacraments,
the Puritan doctrine of conversion, the Christian Sabbath, and the
doctrine of justification and Christian ethics. The Federal
theology is of considerable historical importance in intellectual
history and forms the framework for much of the Reformed theology
in the English-speaking world for three centuries. The doctoral
thesis out of which this book developed won the Frank S. and
Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church
History.
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