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Confessional Baptist Covenant Theology

An Introduction to 1689 Federalism

vs Westminster

vs Dispensationalism

vs New Covenant Theology & Progressive Covenantalism

1689 Federalism Covenant Membership Diagram

Comparison: Westminster

Comparison: Dispensationalism

Comparison: New Covenant Theology

Books

Though there are now many books available on baptist covenant theology, many of them present conflicting views. The purpose of this site is to present complimentary resources all from one consistent perspective - the majority view of the 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith.

To learn where to start, look at the Recommended Reading List.

Books

The Mystery of Christ, His Covenant, and His Kingdom

23rd October 2019 By Brandon Adams

This book presents a very helpful overview of baptist covenant theology without engaging in polemics. Because the book is not written to critique paedobaptism or respond to its criticism, the author is left free to simply present a 1689 Federalism understanding of redemptive history. Though it contains some technical material, this would be a great book to start studying covenant theology.

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From Shadow to Substance

20th May 2018 By Brandon Adams

Samuel D. Renihan’s dissertation on particular baptist covenant theology has now been published as From Shadow to Substance: The Federal Theology of English Particular Baptists (1642-1702).

The book is a tremendous blessing. It helpfully shows the step-by-step progression of particular baptist thought across numerous different works. It also does a very good job of setting the proper context for particular baptist federalism by charting the development of two different streams of covenant theology within the broader reformed tradition in the 16th and 17th centuries.  Read more…Facebooktwittermail

The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology (Revised Edition)

1st March 2013 By Brandon Adams

Pascal Denault’s careful labors over the theological texts of both Baptist and Pedobaptists of the seventeenth century have yielded an excellent study of the relation of baptism to a commonly shared covenantalism. At the same time he has shown that a distinct baptistic interpretation of the substance of the New Covenant, that is, all its conditions having been met in the work of Christ its Mediator resulting in an unconditional application of it to its recipients, formed the most basic difference between the two groups. His careful work on the seventeenth-century documents has yielded a strong, Bible-centered, covenantal defense of believers’ baptism and is worthy of a dominant place in the contemporary discussions of both covenantalism and baptism.
-Thomas J. Nettles, Ph.D.

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