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Puritans
Puritans Sources Covenant Theology.Covenants were important in the religious communities of the Puritans in early New England. These were solemn and binding agreements which were patterned after the covenants they believed God had made with man. In the Covenant of... Read more |
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covenant
covenant , agreement entered into voluntarily by two or more parties to do or refrain from doing certain acts. In the Bible and in theology the covenant is the agreement or engagement of God with man as revealed in the Scriptures. In law a covenant is a contract under seal or an agreement by deed.... Read more |
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Covenant theology
Covenant Theology (Or Federal Theology), elaboration of the doctrines of Calvinism, which became as important in New England as the original teaching. Developed in the writings of the English Puritans William Perkins and William Ames, and in those of early New England ministers, the Covenant... Read more |
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Tabernacle
Tabernacle , in the Bible, the portable holy place of the Hebrews during their desert wanderings. It was a tent, like the portable tent-shrines used by ancient Semites, set up in each camp; eventually it housed the Ark of the Covenant. In the Book of Numbers, the Tabernacle is referred to as the ... Read more |
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Baruch
Baruch , in the Bible. 1 Jeremiah's scribe, for whom the book of Baruch is named. 2 Builder of the wall. 3 Signer of the Covenant.... Read more |
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Daniel
Daniel in the Bible. 1 Prophet, central figure of the book of Daniel . 2 See Chileab . 3 Sealer of the covenant.... Read more |
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Micha
Micha , in the Bible. 1 Same as Micah 4. 2 Sealer of the covenant. 3 Same as Michaiah 2.... Read more |
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Restrictive Covenant
RESTRICTIVE COVENANT A provision in a deed limiting the use of the property and prohibiting certain uses. A clause in contracts of partnership and employment prohibiting a contracting party from engaging in similar employment for a specified period of time within a certain geographical area. A... Read more |
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Ten Commandments
Ten Commandments or Decalogue [Gr.,=ten words], in the Bible, the summary of divine law given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. They have a paramount place in the ethical system in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Listed in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy, the commandments are divided into... Read more |
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Noah
Noah [Heb.,=to rest], in the Bible, the builder of the ark . Righteous Noah and his family were the only people God saved from a world sunk in sin. At divine direction Noah built the ship that saved human and animal life from the Deluge , after which God established a covenant with him. According... Read more |
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Covenant Theology
Covenant Theology (Or Federal Theology...Covenant Theology held that God promised Adam and his posterity...doctrine does not deny that God rejects or elects souls according...relationship between man and God. Punishment for sin is considered... |
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Solemn League and Covenant
Solemn League and Covenant (1643), an agreement...primary commitment of the Covenant was religious, to preserve...according to the Word of God’ meant the establishment...reaffirming their adherence to the Covenant. R. F. G. Holmes |
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Half‐Way Covenant
Half‐Way Covenant. The Half‐way Covenant, as it was called by its eighteenth...widely conceded as manifesting God's wrath at New England's sins...Bibliography Robert Pope , The Half‐Way Covenant: Church Membership in Puritan New... |
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BIBLE
...2c BC). The term testament (from LATIN testamentum a witnessed contract) reflects the Christian belief that God made two covenants with humanity, the first with the Hebrews as a chosen people, the second with the followers of Jesus Christ... |
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Judaism
...20th century bc) was chosen by God to receive favourable treatment in...worship. Having entered into this covenant with God, Abraham moved to Canaan, from...migrated to Egypt and became enslaved. God accomplished the Hebrews' escape... |
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healing
...thunderbolt and he became a god himself, with a cult of priest...them of the greatness of their god and of his many cures. Ritual purification...After relief was achieved, the gods were thanked, sometimes with...others, as a sign of their covenant with ... |
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health foods
...to observe in order to keep their covenant with God. Much later commentary on the lists...people a land of milk and honey, God continued:‘I have made a clear separation...Leviticus 20: 24–6).If God's people obeyed his laws, which... |
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Bible, The
...for Americans to define themselves as a people, and then as a nation. New England Puritans believed themselves in covenant with God just like the Hebrews of the Old Testament. During the sectional strife that led to the Civil War, both North and... |
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circumcision
...Christianity. Infant male circumcision as practised by the Jews occurs on the eighth day after birth. It represents the covenant of God with Abraham (Genesis 17: 10–14). Even after the Shoah and the increased presence of Muslims, who also ritually... |
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Winthrop, John
...A Modell of Christian Charity”—defined the Puritans’ mission to create a biblical commonwealth in covenant with God that would “be as a Citty upon a hill.”Winthrop's Journal documents his skillful guidance and leadership... |
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covenant
...also a promise type of covenant between God and David, assuring...broke the terms of the covenant the agreement could be temporarily rescinded by God. Jeremiah predicted...restoration and a new covenant (Jer. 31: 27–37... |
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kingdom of God
...Roman rule, was compatible with the justice of God and the covenant with his chosen people. God their king was bound to intervene. The proclamation of Jesus was that this kingship of God was indeed to break in on the world. Albert Schweitzer... |
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Covenant
Covenant Judaism In the Bible, covenants were established between...partners and between God and Israel. Circumcision...frequently known as berit (covenant).Christianity The term...Qurʾān speaks of a covenant made in pre...actual terms of the ... |
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God
...existence of other peoples' gods), to an ethical monotheism...distinction between Yahweh and other gods which began in the 9th cent...relatives who worship other gods. By the time of the Exile, belief in Yahweh as sole God, author of both good and evil...has ... |
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Throne of God
...Some mystical tracts speak of God's throne as his ‘merkavah...the Pentateuch, the Ark of the Covenant is understood as the throne of God, (and in his mercy seat...Maimonides, interpreted all talk of God's throne as allegory.In Islam... |
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Half-Way Covenant, the
Half-Way Covenant, the. A doctrine current in 17th- and 18th-cent. American Congregationalism which was held to express the relationship to God of those (especially baptized) members of the community who had had no describable religious experience. |
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Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant
Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant. A new movement in Peru, founded by Ezequiel Ataucuzi Gamonal...divine revelations, Ezequiel considers himself called to lead God's chosen people to a new obedience to the Mosaic law. By the... |
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Christianity
...figure of Jesus is the disclosure of God and the means of human reconciliation...among many at that time, of what God's covenant with Israel and his purpose in creation...mediated the consequence and effect of God, so that on the one hand it was... |
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Congregationalism
...of men and women meeting together to preach the Word of God and administer the Sacraments as Separatists from the national...insisting that these ‘gathered churches’, bound under God by covenant, should be independent of the State and have the right... |
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immortality
...for the individual. The focus of God's enduring covenant was on the nation as a whole. But...the belief in the power of their God that Hebrews came to hold that death...18–37), which was proof of God's power beyond death. The expectation... |
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God makes a covenant with Israel
...between a contract and a covenant? By definition, a...s relationship to God- he was to be the one and only God. The Israelites did not need a pantheon full of gods like other nations...keep up our end of the covenant? On many occasions, ... |
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Abe's other son: Jews and Arabs, both descendants of Abraham and recipients...
...and heir. Abe did this for God's sake, in order that the...also enjoy his own kind of covenant: "I will make a nation of...Genesis 21:13,18). This covenant also mentions a multitude...living symbol of God's other covenant: ... |
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COVENANT AND NARRATIVE, GOD AND TIME
...denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) God has made covenants with humans, and those covenants have been central to the progress of...believe) affirms the "unity of the covenants" in a covenant-theological sense or whether one simply... |
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Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God's Unfolding Purpose
...Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God's Unfolding Purpose...the various OT and NT covenants. The book is well...emphasizing the new covenant's "superiority of...The consummation of God's new covenant (chap. 9) "is ... |
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Essays on faith: God established a lasting covenant
THIS narrative is about the covenant God made with Abraham who was then known as Abram...father of many nations," and the "friend of God." The covenant between God and him is established forever. Abraham's seed... |
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God Makes a Covenant with David
...all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David. God's Living Covenant Unit 2: God's Covenant with Judges and Kings (Lessons 5...will be able to: 1. List the major features of God's covenant with David. 2. Explain the ... |
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God at Sinai: Covenant and Theophany in the Bible and Ancient Near East
God at Sinai: Covenant and Theophany in the Bible and Ancient...salvation history." He concludes, "As God came to Sinai in the clouds to impart his...paralleled in the ancient Near East. They are God as King, God's Kingdom, ... |
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Rural churches must reclaim God's covenant: Seeds of Hope symposium discusses...
...the Bible the land is given by God to his people to be nurtured...and is a gift to be lived in covenant. When the land was lost, it often signaled the loss of God's covenant as well. "Don...said Dr. Ramp. "It is our God-given duty to care ... |
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The god of covenant and creation; scientific naturalism and its challenge to...
9780567033000 The god of covenant and creation; scientific naturalism...been split between deism, which sees God as transcendental and outside the world, and pantheism, which sees God as immanent and identical with the material... |
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God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster.
...their ancestors, they are in covenant with the deity. This concept...continual reference to the idea of covenant encourages the presumption...there is now little mention of covenant in a document such as the 1974...or even define the will of God for others. ... |
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