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A. Blake White
Born
November 03, 1982
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This blog has been all but dead for a while now, but wanted to point to a new website where you can find my stuff: blakewhite.org. Thanks for reading!
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What Is NEW COVENANT THEOLOGY? An Introduction
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2012
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3 editions
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God's Chosen People: Promised to Israel, Fulfilled in the Church
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Obey the Sabbath: Rest in Christ
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The Abrahamic Promises in Galatians
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2013
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2 editions
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The Law of Christ: A Theological Proposal
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2010
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2 editions
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Theological Foundations for New Covenant Ethics
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2013
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The Community of the New Covenant: Meaningful Membership
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The Five Solas: The Deliberately Protestant Church
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The Imitation of Jesus
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2014
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3 editions
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The Newness of the New Covenant
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2007
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“In my opinion, this is exactly what the “covenant of grace” does. It tends to flatten out the old and new covenants, not doing justice to either covenant in its own biblical context.”
― What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction
― What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction
“These women are two covenants, which are the old and the new covenants.[90] Hagar is Mount Sinai, bearing children of slavery. She is the present Jerusalem. “Present” Jerusalem takes us back to the earlier reference to the “present” evil age (Gal 1:4).[91]. The present Jerusalem and her children are in slavery. Her children (4:25) are those who are dependent on her. She is no longer our mother. Our mother is the Jerusalem above, and she is free. To say that the Jerusalem above is our mother is to say we belong to the new age. We are the children of the new creation – the Judaizers are of the old creation. We are the people of the new age, the children of promise (4:28). Tom Schreiner writes, “The Jerusalem above, according to Paul, is the eschatological Jerusalem that has reached down into the present evil age, so we have an example here of Paul’s already but not yet eschatology.”[92] The Judaizers claimed Abraham for their father and Jerusalem for their mother, and Paul says that Christian identity is bound to Christ and the Jerusalem above.”
― The Abrahamic Promises in Galatians
― The Abrahamic Promises in Galatians
“Anthony Hoekema writes, “the reception of the Spirit means that one has become a participant in the new mode of existence associated with the future age, and now partakes of the ‘powers of the age to come’.”[79] Their experience of the Spirit (Gal 3:1-5) is a sign that God’s eschatological restoration of Israel has begun. The Spirit is the way the promised blessing made to Abraham is being realized in all of Abraham’s true children.[80] This is why the Spirit is referred to as the "guarantee of our inheritance" (Eph 1:14; 2 Cor 1:22, 5:5) of the world to come.[81] The gift of the Spirit is the first fruits of the eschatological harvest. The first fruits stand for the beginning of the harvest; it is an experience in part of the harvest now and a pledge of more of the same kind and quality to come (Rom 8:23). The coming of the Spirit means the age to come is here.[82] The Abrahamic covenant finds its fulfillment in the new covenant and the gift of the Spirit is at the heart of the new covenant.”
― The Abrahamic Promises in Galatians
― The Abrahamic Promises in Galatians
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