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Samuel Renihan

23

Oct
2020

In Audio
Resources
Samuel Renihan

By Brandon Adams

Podcast: Sam Renihan @ Theology on the Go

On 23, Oct 2020 | In Audio, Resources, Samuel Renihan | By Brandon Adams

From Shadow To Substance Podcast @ Theology on the Go, “A Place For Truth,” Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

What is Federal Theology? Sam Renihan joins our hosts to address this very question. Sam is a pastor at Trinity Reformed Baptist Church in La Mirada, CA and author of From Shadow to Substance: the Federal Theology of the English Particular Baptists. 

 Is it fair to say that Federal theology was the theology of the post-reformation English Puritan? If so, how? Sam focuses his attention on the distinctive features of Federal Theology among particular Baptists, their place in the 17th century literature, and the implications of departing from the English social institutions of long-held beliefs.

Show Notes

·  Theologian Casper Olevian

·  Theologian John Cameron

·  Minister Benjamin Cox 

·  Unity and Continuity in Covenantal Thought by Andrew Woosley

·  The Covenantal Theology of John Spilsbery by Matthew Bingham

·  The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology by Pascal Denault 

·  Divine Rule Maintained: Anthony Burgess, Covenant Theology, and the Place of the     

Law in reformed Scholasticism by Casselli

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23

Oct
2019

In Books
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Samuel Renihan

By Brandon Adams

The Mystery of Christ, His Covenant, and His Kingdom

On 23, Oct 2019 | In Books, Featured, Resources, Samuel Renihan | 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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20

May
2018

In Books
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Samuel Renihan

By Brandon Adams

From Shadow to Substance

On 20, May 2018 | In Books, Featured, Resources, Samuel Renihan | 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

30

May
2017

In Resources
Samuel Renihan

By Brandon Adams

Founders.org: Particular Baptist Covenant Theology (Sam Renihan)

On 30, May 2017 | In Resources, Samuel Renihan | By Brandon Adams

Over at the Founders Ministries website, Sam Renihan has a very helpful summary of 17th century Particular Baptist Covenant Theology.

The Particular Baptists emerged from the English Puritan movement within England’s parishes and universities. Several of the first-generation Particular Baptists attended Cambridge and Oxford and began their ministerial careers as priests in the church of England. Lay ministers among the Particular Baptists studied and preached Reformed theology. To the Particular Baptists, a consistent application of Reformed theology yielded congregational and Baptist conclusions. This was the case in their covenant theology, which developed within the unity and diversity of the larger branches of the Reformed covenantal family tree…

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24

Jan
2016

In Samuel Renihan

By Brandon Adams

“DOLPHINS IN THE WOODS”: A Critique of Mark Jones and Ted Van Raalte’s Presentation of Particular Baptist Covenant Theology, Samuel Renihan

On 24, Jan 2016 | In Samuel Renihan | By Brandon Adams

In a JIRBS 2015 article, Samuel Renihan critiques a chapter in A Puritan Theology dealing with baptist covenant theology. Renihan demonstrates that Jones and Van Raalte’s failed to adequately understand and present the baptist position.

No one ever loses a debate. Both sides walk away in victory because they stated their cases correctly. The opponent, of course, completely misunderstood and simply didn’t get it. Even the audience agrees. “Our side won.” Sadly, most debates are like this, and debates between paedobaptists and Baptists throughout the years have been no exception to the trend. For many centuries the baptismal debate has divided, disappointingly but necessarily, brothers who otherwise share a great deal in common.

In Joel Beeke and Mark Jones’ massive and delightful A Puritan Theology they have dedicated a chapter to describing this debate as it took place in the late seventeenth century. Their chapter sets out to do two main things: first, to vindicate John Owen’s covenant theology from Baptist appropriation, and second, to demonstrate how John Flavel bested Philip Cary in their printed debate on the subject of covenant theology.  This present article will evaluate the portrayal of the Particular Baptists as it is found in that chapter, clarifying how and why the Particular Baptists appropriated John Owen’s covenant theology and demonstrating that while the Cary/Flavel debate is useful for illustration, Cary’s views must be placed within the context of Particular Baptist federalism as a whole—particularly regarding the conditionality of the covenant of grace and the purpose and design of the Mosaic covenant. This evaluation is not intended to revive the debate itself, but rather to present a fairer and more complete portrait of Particular Baptist federalism and their arguments against paedobaptism.

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23

Jul
2015

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Samuel Renihan

By Brandon Adams

Resting in Christ (Sermon)

On 23, Jul 2015 | In Audio, Resources, Samuel Renihan | By Brandon Adams

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Samuel Renihan | Genesis

Matthew 11:28-30 

SUN 07/19/2015

Sunday – AM | 39 min

 

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Samuel Renihan | Genesis

Trinity Reformed Baptist 

SUN 10/26/2014

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01

Dec
2014

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Samuel Renihan

By Brandon Adams

Kingdom Through Covenant (Review)

On 01, Dec 2014 | In Resources, Samuel Renihan | By Brandon Adams

[PDF available here]

Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants

A Review Article

Samuel Renihan1

Just as the Israelites feared to enter Canaan because there were giants in the land, so also the one who approaches Kingdom through Covenant2 must consider the viability of digesting and interacting with a work of such magnitude. That being said, Gentry and Wellum have produced a book worthy both of digestion and interaction.  Read more…

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  1. Samuel Renihan, M.Div., is a pastor at Trinity Reformed Baptist Church, La Mirada, CA. This review article was published in the Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (2014): 153-76, and is used with permission from RBAP. 

  2. Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum, Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012, 848pp.). 

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04

Nov
2014

In Resources
Samuel Renihan

By Brandon Adams

The Case for Credobaptism

On 04, Nov 2014 | In Resources, Samuel Renihan | By Brandon Adams

Place for Truth: A Voice of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals posted two articles recently. One arguing for paedobaptism, the other for credobaptism.

Samuel Renihan wrote an excellent summary of 1689 Federalism’s case for credobaptism. I highly recommend reading it, printing it, and saving it.

Consequently, there has never been a covenant wherein “believers and their children” constituted the paradigm for covenant membership.

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