What is Covenant Theology?
Covenant theology believes that God has structured His relationship with humanity by covenants rather than dispensations. In Scripture we explicitly read of various covenants functioning as the major stages in redemptive history, such as: the Covenant with Noah (Gen 6, 9), the Covenant with Abraham (Gen 12, 15, 17), the Covenant with Moses (Ex 19-24), the Covenant with David (2 Sam 7), and finally in the New Covenant fulfilled and founded in Jesus Christ. These individual covenants are called the “biblical covenants” because they are explicitly described in the Bible. All of these covenants are not new tests of man’s faithfulness to each new stage of revelation (as are the dispensations in dispensational theology), but are rather differing administrations of the single, overarching covenant of grace. Covenant theology, in sum, holds that we as sinners have no right or case to make before a sovereign God except through the life and death of Christ. What is dispensational theology? Altho
