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Two new books by Stephen J. Wellum

18 Friday Mar 2016

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In 2012, Stephen J. Wellum co-authored Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants along with Peter Gentry. It was received well, though not without making a few people uncomfortable from both covenant and dispensational camps. The work was a critique of both systems (with regard to weaknesses perceived by Gentry and Wellum), but also intended to provide a constructive way forward via biblical theology. Here is a 5 minute YouTube video of Gentry and Wellum discussing Kingdom Through Covenant.Progressive Covenantalism
In the same vein, Wellum is now releasing Progressive Covenantalism: Charting a Way Between Dispensational and Covenant Theologies (B&H Academic).  Preorder on Amazon here.

god the son incarnate (wellum)

On a different note (more a systematic theology genre than a biblical theology genre) Wellum is releasing God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of Christ (Crossway). This is his contribution in the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series (a great series!). Preorder on Amazon here.

The Incarnation and Limited Atonement

29 Monday Dec 2014

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I recently read an article by James B. Torrance titled “The Incarnation and ‘Limited RevProfJamesBTorranceAtonement'” [Evangelical Quarterly 55 (1983): 83-94]. Torrance takes a position against the doctrine of ‘limited atonement’ as he understands it. While I remain finally unpersuaded concerning his arguments against limited atonement, there was still a lot of good stuff in his article. Here are my two main take-aways: (1) He has an excellent discussion about the consequences of starting with the doctrine of the incarnation vs. the doctrine of election, and the divergent implications this starting point has for how we construct our doctrine of God. (2) Regarding historical theology there is a fascinating sketch of the emerging of “so-called ‘federal Calvinism’ or Covenant Theology which was to develop in England, Scotland, and Holland” (see pgs. 88-93).