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Biblical Theology, Volume 3: The Special Grace Covenants (New Testament) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The third of three volumes, this study explores the final and culminating special grace covenant: the new covenant. It examines new covenant formation, life under the new covenant, and eschatological fulfillment of the goals of the new covenant, which also fulfills the eschatological trajectory of all the divine-human covenants taken together in God’s plan of redemption.

in the ancient Near East vis-à-vis their subjects. Genesis 1 … thus constitutes a genuine democratization of ancient near eastern royal ideology.34 Although what is now known of the idea of image helps us to understand better such statements as Genesis 1:26–27, there is no need to assume that pagan texts “influenced the imago Dei.” Rather, God revealed in Genesis 1 the true nature of humanity made in his image—a creative act God had performed long before there were ancient near eastern kings. Moreover,
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