Any good books?

Andrew P.C. · #1 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 12:37 PM

I'm wanting to find some well written books on CT. Suggestions?

sotzo · #2 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 12:43 PM

Any particular aspect of it?

In the meantime, my favorite broad strokes work is O. Palmer Robertson's The Christ of the Covenants.

Andrew P.C. · #3 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by sotzo

Any particular aspect of it?

In the meantime, my favorite broad strokes work is O. Palmer Robertson's The Christ of the Covenants.

Nothing in particular but everything in general. LOL

I'm a newbie to CT since I grew up in a dispensational church(your typical SBC church). I believe in covenant theology, but I would love to learn more. I only know the basics.

Preferrably from a presby understanding. The reason being that I have been rethinking my position on "who the covenant people are".

bookslover · #4 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew P.C.

I'm wanting to find some well written books on CT. Suggestions?

Randy Booth's book defending and promoting infant baptism has a good basic explanation of how covenant theology works. I don't remember the title offhand, but it's published by P&R.

Rev. Todd Ruddell · #5 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 01:19 PM

There are a few really good ones:

Witsius "The Economy of the Covenants"
Rutherford "The Covenant of Life Opened" a difficult read, but worth the effort
As was said above, O. Palmer Robertson "The Christ of the Covenants" good intro to CT

May the Lord bless your studies.

AV1611 · #6 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Rev. Todd Ruddell

There are a few really good ones:

Witsius "The Economy of the Covenants"
Rutherford "The Covenant of Life Opened" a difficult read, but worth the effort
As was said above, O. Palmer Robertson "The Christ of the Covenants" good intro to CT

May the Lord bless your studies.

http://www.monergismbooks.com/elenctic02.html
http://www.monergismbooks.com/christianreason1565.html
http://www.monergismbooks.com/economy8708.html
http://www.monergismbooks.com/simpleoverview.html

Now whilst some on PB will disagree with Herman Hoeksema I don't and suggest:
http://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_49.html
Hoeksema's Conception of the Covenant
http://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_49.html

VirginiaHuguenot · #7 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 04:21 PM

Witsius (available online here) and Rutherford are excellent recommendations. A good intro to Witsius is:

Joel Beeke & D. Patrick Ramsey, An Analysis of Herman Witsius's "The Economy of the Covenants"

Other good overviews on CT include:

Edward Fisher, The Marrow of Modern Divinity
John Ball, A Treatise on the Covenant of Grace (available online here)
Matthew Henry, The Covenant of Grace
Thomas Boston, A View of the Covenant of Grace (available online here)
J.G. Vos, The Covenant of Grace
John Murray, The Covenant of Grace
Wilhelmus a'Brakel, The Christian's Reasonable Service (Vol. 1)
Won Taek Lim, The Covenant Theology of Francis Roberts
Samuel Petto, The Great Mystery of the Covenant of Grace

MamaArcher · #8 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 02:47 PM

Randy Booth's book Children of the Promise is a good book. We are SBC and working toward moving ordination to the PCA. This book was a really good.

cih1355 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 03:37 PM

What do you think of Michael Horton's book, God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology?

caddy · #10 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by cih1355

What do you think of Michael Horton's book, God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology?

I think it is excellent. It's the only book on CT that I have read so far...

Sydnorphyn · #11 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew P.C.

I'm wanting to find some well written books on CT. Suggestions?

Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and maybe even the gospels....

sorry, could not resist.

John

greenbaggins · #12 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 12:08 PM

I second Andrew Myers's list, and recommend especially Witsius and a'Brakel. I think that a'Brakel especially is unbelievably clear, pastoral, yet deep.

Robert Truelove · #13 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 07:00 AM

This is the title that I was going to mention. Horton's book does a fantastic job of presenting classical Covenant Theology in a way that is easy to grasp. In my opinion, it has filled a vast void. Most of the books available before were very long and/or arduous reading (i.e. Witsius--though excellent), or they came across so general that the reader comes away with only the vague concept of the system (i.e. Robertson).

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Originally Posted by cih1355

What do you think of Michael Horton's book, God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology?

shelly · #14 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by cih1355

What do you think of Michael Horton's book, God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology?

I've been working through it for a while. Everything in it is new to me, so it's slow going. My husband and I talk through a lot of it and that helps pound in the new concepts into my brain.

I can't compare it to anything else because its the only book I've ever looked at on ct; but I'm at least learning Horton's flavor of CT. I'll add other flavors later on. At this point I don't know where I'll end up with ct. But Horton makes a lot of sense.