What is the Benefit of Studying Covenant Theology? Biblically and theologically speaking, the Covenants in the Bible are the bridge between anthropology and soteriology.

The great English Baptist pastor Charles Spurgeon pointedly said, “The doctrine of the Covenant lies at the root of all true theology. It has been said that he who well understands the distinction between the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace is a master of divinity. I am persuaded that most of the mistakes which men make concerning the doctrines of Scriptures are based upon fundamental errors with regard to the covenants of law and the covenants of grace. May God grant us now the power to instruct and you the grace to receive instruction on this vital subject.”

Also, Covenant Theology is important to study because understanding the Covenants is a great way to systematically study the Scriptures and understand the continuity of the Old and New Testaments.

Download the Class Notes:

• Overview of CT
• CT in Earliest Christianity
• Covenant of Works
• Covenant of Grace
• The Noahic Covenant
• The Mosaic Covenant – 1
• The Mosaic Covenant – 2
• The Davidic Covenant
• The New Covenant
• The Church is Israel in the New Covenant
• Comparison Chart of Dispy vs CT

Ligon Duncan said, “As my dear Southern Baptist friend, Dr. Mark Dever, the pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, a former J.B. Lightfoot scholar at Cambridge University, the author of a study on the Puritan, Richard Sibbes, and his doctrine on the Covenant says, ‘Lig, Covenant Theology is just the Gospel.’ Now I assure you that Mark has no interest, whatsoever, in getting your baby baptized, but he knows that Covenant Theology is right at the heart of the doctrine of the work of Christ, of the offices of Christ, of the doctrine of salvation, of the doctrine of the church, and we could go on adding to it. It is something very, very central. Covenant Theology has a fundamental place in the Christian message and it is too important to be relegated simply as a subset of our doctrine of the sacraments. And unfortunately, that is pretty much where it has been relegated in theology.”