What Is NEW COVENANT THEOLOGY? An Introduction Quotes

“And, God’s original creation purpose pointed to God’s eventual new creation purpose. The original creation pointed forward to the new creation. Eden pointed forward to what God would eventually do: the New Eden. Jerusalem pointed forward to the New Jerusalem. Paul”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“Luke records that Jesus began with Moses and all the prophets and the Psalms, interpreting to his Emmaus followers the things concerning himself (Luke 24:27, 44).”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“New Covenant Theology does not teach that the church replaces Israel but that the church is the fulfillment of Israel by virtue of its union with the Jewish Messiah.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“But we must see external commands as train tracks. They are needed to keep us in line, but they are different from the engine. The engine is the gospel of grace, the power of the Spirit, and the example of Jesus.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“New Covenant Theology can be described as “Spirit-driven and Christ-centered.” The basic imperative of the new covenant is “walk by the Spirit” (Gal 5:16).”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“We now “belong to another” (Rom 7:4). We look to Jesus our King. He shows us how to live in a way that pleases God.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“This two-age structure is foundational for understanding most of the New Testament. This is the underpinning for all the contrasts in Paul’s writings: flesh/Spirit, letter/Spirit, Adam/Last Adam, law/grace, sin/righteousness, law/faith, slavery/freedom, death/resurrection, law/gospel, futility/hope, decay/renewal, wrath/adoption, etc.9 From Paul’s perspective, the old covenant law is on the old age side of the old age/new age equation. Adam, law, and flesh are old, while Last Adam, Spirit, and righteousness are new. As previously noted, this is how Paul can say in Romans 6:14 that we are no longer under law but are now under grace. He could have just as easily have said that we are no longer in the old age, but are now in the new.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“We must keep in mind that for Paul, the law is part of the old age,”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“There are two primary aspects about the new covenant that make it new: (1) full and final forgiveness of sins and (2) the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon all members of the covenant community.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“We learn how to interpret the Old Testament from Jesus and his apostles. In many ways, this is the most important distinctive of New Covenant Theology.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“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.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“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”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“the true image of God”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“He is the center of the universe and the center of the Bible.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“It is safe to assume that far more than all this counted the eschatological mold into which the Apostle’s thought had been cast from is largely derived from its antithetical structure, as exhibited in the comprehensive antitheses of the First Adam and the Last Adam, sin and righteousness, the flesh and the Spirit, law and faith, and these are precisely the historic reflections of the one great transcendental antithesis between this world and the world-to-come,”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“Zens, Jon. “This is My Beloved Son, Hear Him!” Searching Together 25:1-3 (Summer-Winter 1997). A wonderful booklet on new covenant ethics and ecclesiology by one of the early New Covenant Theology thinkers.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“This is a meaty chapter on the shortcomings of Covenant Theology, especially applied to baptism. This chapter is worth the price of the book.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“but what is often left unsaid is that God only made promises to faithful Israel—and there is only one wholly faithful Israelite: Jesus of Nazareth.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“New Covenant Theology is robustly Christ-centered. Jesus is the interpretive key to the relationship between Israel and the church. The covenant people of God have been reworked and redefined in light of the Messiah and the new covenant he inaugurated.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“while New Covenant Theology teaches that the church is the continuation of Israel through Jesus Christ.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“The law of Christ can be defined as those prescriptive principles drawn from the example and teaching of Jesus and his apostles (the central demand being love), which are meant to be worked out in specific situations by the guiding influence and empowerment of the Holy Spirit.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“This “cruciform” (cross-shaped) love is at the heart of new covenant ethics. One”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“In other words, one fulfills the will of God not by putting oneself under the law of Moses, but by being under the jurisdiction of Jesus. These”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“New Covenant Theology strives to keep this one plan of God—centered in Jesus Christ—primary.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“I hope to show that God has a singular plan with multiple covenants, and that there is a sharp distinction between the old and new covenants.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“Eschatology is generally understood as the study of the end times (or last things), so when New Covenant Theology says that the church is the eschatological Israel, we are saying that the church is the end-time Israel.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“New covenant Christians are no longer under the old covenant era of law, but are now under the new covenant era of grace inaugurated by Christ himself.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction

“The story of the Bible is not the story of the covenant of grace; nor is it the story of Israel. The Bible is the story of God’s work in history to sum up all things in Christ. New Covenant Theology strives to keep this one plan of God—centered in Jesus Christ—primary.”
― A. Blake White, What is New Covenant Theology? An Introduction