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Covenant and Commandment

Works, Obedience and Faithfulness in the Christian Life

New Studies in Biblical Theology

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by Bradley G. Green
Series edited by D. A. Carson

Covenant and Commandment
Ebook
  • Length: 208 pages
  • Published: November 12, 2014
  • Imprint: IVP Academic
  • ISBN: 9780830897773
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From a close study of key Old and New Testament texts and interaction with historical and contemporary theologians, Bradley Green shows how different aspects of the Christian life are each God-elicited, real and necessary. Reaffirming the best Reformed voices, this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume provides a biblical theology of the nature, role and place of works, obedience and faithfulness in the new covenant.Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.

"For the Christian, to know Jesus, to confess him as Lord, entails obeying him. But how does this reality relate to a plethora of complementary themes? Dr Green addresses this question by soundings in an impressive diversity of topics. . . . Alongthe way Dr Green interacts with various writers in the Reformed tradition, and with contemporary thinkers (e.g. Henri Blocher, N. T. Wright). The canvas on which he paints is large enough to draw in a wide range of readers, all of whom will find themselves simulated to think about these issues more precisely."

D. A. Carson

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CONTENTS

Series preface
Author's preface
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. The New Testament and the reality and necessity of works,
obedience and faithfulness
2. Obedience, works and faithfulness: moving from Old
Testament to New Testament
3. Old covenant, new covenant and the history of redemption
4. The cross and the reality of works, obedience and faithfulness
5. Union with Christ and its relationship to works, obedience
and faithfulness
6. Justification, judgment and the future
7. The reality and necessity of works, obedience and
faithfulness

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of authors
Index of Scripture references

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Bradley G. Green

Bradley G. Green (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of Christian studies at Union University. He is the author of Covenant and Commandment, The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life, and Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine as well as the editor of Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy.

D. A. Carson

D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.