R. Scott Clark
Puritan Board Senior
Clark\'s New Book on Covenant Theology
After an unusually long gestation, the baby appeared just before Christmas:
R. Scott Clark, Caspar Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant: The Double Benefit of Christ. Rutherford Studies in Historical Theology ed. David F. Wright (Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2005).
From the jacket:
I'm told that it is available via email at: [email protected]
The website is http://www.rutherfordhouse.org.uk/
You want "ROI (Republic of Ireland) and the Rest of the World), then "books."
It retails for 14.99 sterling (= $25.63 on 12/30/05). The good news is that the pound is weakening against the dollar so prices for us are coming down.
No, they don't have a US distributor yet, but our bookstore http://www.wscal.edu/bookstore/ is ordering copies and I think that Joel Beeke will have some too.
The book has not appeared on the RH website yet, but I expect it will after the 1st of the year.
Perhaps we on the list email them, it will happen more quickly?
Thanks,
rsc
[Edited on 1-1-2006 by R. Scott Clark]
After an unusually long gestation, the baby appeared just before Christmas:
R. Scott Clark, Caspar Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant: The Double Benefit of Christ. Rutherford Studies in Historical Theology ed. David F. Wright (Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2005).
From the jacket:
This volume is the most comprehensive treatment of Olevian´s theology published to date. Reflecting an impressive breadth of research and depth of analysis, it delivers on its promise at the beginning to move beyond my own work on Olevian´s covenant thought by placing his doctrine of the covenant in the context of his theology as a whole. In so doing, it offers, one might say, a duplex beneficium. First, it secures Olevian´s reputation as a significant theologian in his own right and not simply as the failed reformer of Trier, the court preacher of Heidelberg, or an author of the Heidelberg Catechism. Second, it accurately identifies his place in the development of Reformed theology as it passed from the Age of Reformation to the Age of Orthodoxy. A stellar addition to this series in historical theology.
Lyle D. Bierma, Ph.D.
Professor of Systematic Theology
Calvin Theological Seminary
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Clark´s study of Caspar Olevian´s doctrine of the covenant and its "œtwofold benefit," justification and sanctification, is a fine and needed addition to the literature on the developing Reformed tradition during the sixteenth century. Contrary to the claim of some who advocate a "œCalvin against the Calvinists" approach to the development of the Reformed tradition, Clark demonstrates that Olevian´s work was "œin Calvin´s line." Since Olevian was an important contributor to the writing of the Heidelberg Catechism, Clark´s study also sheds light upon that great Reformation confession.
Cornelis P. Venema, Ph.D.
President and Professor of Doctrinal Studies
Mid-America Reformed Seminary
Dr Clark's book is a very welcome addition to the growing literature on the development of Reformed Orthodoxy in the Reformation and post-Reformation period. In a series of carefully argued chapters, he places Olevianus' thought in historical cintext and, by so doing, puts to rest a number of misconstructions of doctrinal development during this time while shedding new light upon the relationship of the theology of Olevianus to that of the Heidelberg Catechism, of Calvin and of the wider Reformed world. This is a book that should be read by all students and scholars interested in the theology of the period in general and of Olevianus in particular.
Carl Trueman, Ph.D.
Professor of Church History and Historical Theology
Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, USA).
I'm told that it is available via email at: [email protected]
The website is http://www.rutherfordhouse.org.uk/
You want "ROI (Republic of Ireland) and the Rest of the World), then "books."
It retails for 14.99 sterling (= $25.63 on 12/30/05). The good news is that the pound is weakening against the dollar so prices for us are coming down.
No, they don't have a US distributor yet, but our bookstore http://www.wscal.edu/bookstore/ is ordering copies and I think that Joel Beeke will have some too.
The book has not appeared on the RH website yet, but I expect it will after the 1st of the year.
Perhaps we on the list email them, it will happen more quickly?
Thanks,
rsc
[Edited on 1-1-2006 by R. Scott Clark]