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Baptist covenant theology (also known as Baptist federalism) is a Reformed Baptist conceptual overview and interpretive framework for understanding the overall structure of the Bible. It sees the theological concept of a covenant as an organizing principle for Christian theology .
Reformed Baptists, Particular Baptists and Calvinistic Baptists, [1] are Baptists that hold to a Calvinist soteriology (salvation belief). [2] Depending on the denomination, Calvinistic Baptists adhere to varying degrees of Reformed theology, ranging from simply embracing the Five Points of Calvinism, to accepting a modified form of federalism; all Calvinistic Baptists reject the classical ...
Covenant theology is upheld by the Reformed Churches (Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, Congregationalist and Reformed Anglican traditions). [2] The most well-known form of Covenant Theology is associated with Presbyterians and comes from the Westminster Confession of Faith.
Stephen J. Wellum is an American Baptist theologian. He is professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and editor of the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology. [1] Wellum has degrees from Roberts Wesleyan College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has written numerous academic articles and contributed to ...
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches holds to Reformed theology as set forth in the Westminster Standards, Three Forms of Unity, and 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. On some doctrines, such as the Federal Vision, paedocommunion, and paedobaptism, the CREC allows each church to determine its own position.
Reformed Christians do so on the basis of the continuity from the old covenant between God and Israel and the new covenant with the church, since infants were circumcised under the old covenant. [55] They also see God's saving purpose in the new covenant as having to do with families as well as individuals. [ 56 ]
It has remained an influential work ever since, going through several editions, revisions, and corrections. Since it was first published, reformed Baptist scholarship has matured in several respects, particularly regarding covenant theology. [22] Nevertheless, it remains a respected source for understanding the theology of the 2LBCF.
The Reformed and Presbyterian churches have generally followed the Lutherans on the importance of distinguishing the law and the gospel. [27] Articulated in terms of Covenant Theology, law and gospel have been associated with the Covenant of Law (Mosaic, not to be confused with Covenant of Works, Adamic) and the Covenant of Grace, respectively ...