单词 | covenant theology |
释义 | > as lemmascovenant theology covenant theology n. Theology (chiefly in Calvinist thought) theology organized around the overarching idea of a biblical covenant or covenants between God and human beings, esp. the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace (see sense 8a); cf. federal theology n. at federal adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1835 W. Wright tr. G. F. Seiler Biblical Hermeneutics Pref. 11 He [sc. John Koch] and his coadjutors fell into the mystical and allegorical method of interpretation, and his system of Covenant-theology misled him to the adoption of many false notions. 1950 G. E. Wright Old Test. against its Environm. ii. 62 Deuteronomy with its lucid expression of the covenant theology can no longer be viewed as a pious forgery of the seventh century. 1967 New Eng. Q. 40 101 The attacks..upon ‘the legal scheme’ of the subscriptionists and the covenant theology were essentially stimulated by a pietistic fear. 2000 C. Shröder in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 193/2 His emphasis on the asymmetry and immediacy of the relationship between God and the human being was puzzling to an audience accustomed to the mediating arrangements of covenant theology. < as lemmas |
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