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Eternal Covenant: How the Trinity Reshapes Covenant Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book Smith delves deeper into the discussion at the intersection of covenant and trinitarian theology that he began with Paradox and Truth. Though many Reformed theologians have recognized an agreement between the Father and the Son for the salvation of the human race, few have explored the vast theological possibilities of an eternal covenant that involves all three persons of the...

1 Is There a Covenant in the Trinity? The history of the Reformed doctrine of a covenant among the persons of the Trinity is complicated by numerous issues, not the least of which is the fact that the covenant has often been thought of as a covenant between the Father and the Son, with little or no mention of the Holy Spirit, a discrepancy so great that Herman Hoeksema can refer to it as an implicit, albeit unintentional, denial of the Trinity.1 In addition to the place that the Holy Spirit is thought
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