Covenant and Election in the Reformed Tradition (eBook)

Covenant and election are two of the most prominent and most important truths in Scripture. They run through the Bible like two grand, harmonious themes in symphony. These two doctrines and their relation are the twofold subject of this book. The author illumines covenant and election from the controversial history of the confession of the teachings and their relation to the Reformed tradition—from John Calvin in the sixteenth-century through the fathers of the Secession churches in the nineteenth-century Netherlands to the twentieth-century theologians Herman Bavinck and Herman Hoeksema. What others are saying about this book: "This new book by David J. Engelsma, professor emeritus at the Protestant Reformed Theological School, is significant. Through his own years of diligent study as a pastor and seminary professor, Engelsma has distinguished himself as a noted covenant theologian and an ardent defender of the indispensable link between God’s covenant of grace and His election