TH029-712 - Advanced Issues in Covenant Theology

  • 2,784 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • theologyUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

96cps of study, including 36 cps at AQF level 6

Corequisites

6cps TH/CH/PE and 24cps OT/NT/BB

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Functional knowledge and understanding of Advanced theological and pastoral issues in Covenant Theology.

B. Be able to

1. Discuss biblically and theologically Specialised issues on the interpretation and application of Covenant Theology.
2. Discuss diverse scholarship and pastoral perspectives in the theological and pastoral impact of Advanced issues in Covenant Theology.
3. Present Critical evidence-based perspectives on Advanced issues in Covenant Theology. 
 

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Functional perspectives and skills from ‘Advanced Issues in Covenant Theology’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner.

Content

This unit examines issues in Covenant Theology from a selection of six topics from those listed below. Level 9 students must include at least four emerging issues, such as: Subordination of the Son; Federal Vision; New covenant theology; The new perspective on Paul; Assurance and introspectivity; Sacraments.
1. The current status of Covenant Theology
2. Trinitarian theology and the Covenant of Redemption
3. Federal theology and Adam
4. Creation theology and Noah
5. Soteriology and the Abrahamic covenant
6. Justification, law and merit and the Mosaic covenant
7. Central paradigms and the Kingdom of the Davidic covenant
8. New covenant realisation

Set Readings

Bartholomew, Craig G. and Goheen, M. W., Finding our Place in the Bible Story (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004).

Bavinck, H., Reformed Dogmatics [abridged in one volume] (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011).

Beeke, Joel R., Reformed Preaching (Wheaton IL: Crossway, 2018)

Beeke, Joel R. & Jones, Mark, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage, 2012).

Burger, Hans, ‘The Story of God’s Covenants: A Biblical-Theological Investigation with Systematic Consequences’ CTJ 54.2 (2019) 267-299

Fesko, J. V., The Covenant of Works: The Origin, Development and Reception of the Doctrine (Oxford: OUP, 2020). Esp. chapter 10.

Fesko, J. V., The Trinity and the Covenant of Redemption (Fearn: Mentor: 2016)

Gräbe, Petrus J., New Covenant, New Community (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2006).

Haykin, Michael  A. G. and Jones, Mark (eds.), Drawn into Controversie (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011).

Horton, Michael, God of Promise: Introducing Covenant theology (Grand Raids: Baker, 2006).

Letham, Robert, Systematic Theology (Wheaton IL: Crossway, 2019).

Macleod, Donald, Therefore the Truth I Speak: Scottish Theology, 1500-1700 (Fearn: Mentor, 2020) esp. 313-392.

McGowan, A. T. B., Adam, Christ and Covenant (London: Apollos, 2016).

McKay, David, The Bond of Love: God’s Covenantal Relationship with his Church (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2001).

Moore, T. M., I Will be your God (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 2002).

Perkins, Harrison, ‘Reconsidering the Development of the Covenant of Works: A study in Doctrinal trajectory’ CTJ 53.2 (2018) 289-317.

Smith, Ralph, Eternal Covenant: How the Trinity Reshapes Covenant Theology (Moscow ID, 2003)

Ward, Rowland. S., God and Adam: Reformed theology and the Creation Covenant (Lansvale, NSW: Tulip Publishing, 2nd ed., 2019).

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