Recovering a Covenantal Heritage: Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology (Richard C. Barcellos, editor)

Recovering a Covenantal Heritage

Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology 

Recovering a Coveantal Heritage has been published with the intent to further the discussion on covenant theology among Baptists and paedobaptists. It in no way pretends to be a fully worked-out Baptist covenant theology. It contains essays on 16 topics by 13 different Reformed and Baptistic authors.

The first main section is historical. It seeks to set a historical-theological context for the reader.

The second section of this work discusses various biblical issues related to covenant theology – the Abrahamic Covenant, the Old and New Covenants, Acts 2 and Colossians 2.

The third section of the book, though the shortest, seeks to put these features together.

“It is my hope that this work will both challenge and instruct Baptist readers and introduce paedobaptists into part of the thought-world of Baptist covenant theology.” — editor, Richard C. Barcellos, Ph.D., and pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church Palmdale, CA

Table of Contents

• Preface (Richard C. Barcellos)
• Introduction (James M. Renihan)

1. A Brief Overview of Seventeenth-Century Reformed Orthodox Federalism (Richard C. Barcellos)
2. Covenant Theology in the First and Second London Confessions of Faith (James M. Renihan)
3. By Farther Steps: A Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist Covenant Theology (Pascal Denault)
4. The Puritan Argument for the Immersion of Believers: How Seventeenth-Century Baptists Utilized the Regulative Principle of Worship (G. Stephen Weaver)
5. The Antipaedobaptism of John Tombes (Michael T. Renihan)
6. The Abrahamic Covenant in the Thought of John Tombes (Michael T. Renihan)
7. John Owen on the Mosaic Covenant (Thomas E. Hicks)
8. A ‘Novel’ Approach to Credobaptist and Paedobaptist Polemics (Jeffrey A. Massey)
9. The Fatal Flaw of Infant Baptism: The Dichotomous Nature of the Abrahamic Covenant (Jeffrey D. Johnson)
10. The Difference Between the Old and New Covenants: John Owen on Hebrews 8:6 (John Owen)
11. The Newness of the New Covenant, Part 1 (James R. White)
12. The Newness of the New Covenant, Part 2 (James R. White)
13. Acts 2:39 in its Context (Part 1): An Exegetical Summary of Acts 2:39 and Paedobaptism (Jamin Hubner)
14. Acts 2:39 in its Context (Part 2): An Exegetical Summary of Acts 2:39 and Paedobaptism (Jamin Hubner)
15. An Exegetical Appraisal of Colossians 2:11-12 (Richard C. Barcellos)
16. Reformed Baptist Covenant Theology and Biblical Theology (Micah and Samuel Renihan)