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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 ...
In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregational traditions, as well as parts of the Anglican (known as "Episcopal" in some regions) and Baptist traditions. Reformed theology emphasizes the authority of the Bible and the sovereignty of God, as well as covenant theology, a framework for ...
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.
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.
Baptism places a child into an external (or outward) relationship to the covenant of grace, just as the Israelites who passed through the Red Sea were outwardly part of God's covenant people. Like the Israelites, baptized children have many of the outward benefits of the children of God.
From the end of the sixteenth century through the eighteenth century, a period known as Reformed orthodoxy, Reformed baptismal theology further developed the covenantal meaning of baptism. [15] Theologians more carefully defined the sacramental union of baptism, or the relationship between the outward washing with that which it signifies. [ 16 ]
Reformed Christianity portal; Frame, John (24 May 2012), "A review of Brian G. Armstrong's Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy", Westminster Theological Journal, Frame, Poythress. Muller, Richard A. (2006). "Divine Covenants, Absolute and Conditional: John Cameron and the Early Orthodox Development of Reformed Covenant Theology" (PDF).