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This book forms an overview of the biblical teaching on covenant as well as the practical significance of covenant for the Christian life. A host of 26 scholars shows how covenant is not only clearly taught from Scripture, but also that it lays the foundation for other key doctrines of salvation. The contributors, who engage variously in biblical, systematic, and historical theology, present...

or confirming the covenant.” Thus the covenant of grace may be understood as both monopleuric (foedus monopleuron) and dipleuric (foedus dipleuron).15 Likewise for Calvin, the covenant of grace was both monopleuric and dipleuric. On the one hand, all promises are met and fulfilled by God, but God requires “uprightness and sanctity of life” for all those in the covenant; “nonetheless the covenant is at the outset drawn up as a free agreement, and perpetually remains such.”16 In keeping with this understanding,
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