The Ordinance of Covenanting.

Within the Reformed Christian tradition, covenanting, the act of a people solemnly binding themselves to God and to their duty, carries deep historical and doctrinal weight. This book sets out to examine that practice in full, as scripture, as history, and as living obligation.

What it's about

The Ordinance of Covenanting is a theological treatise on the practice of religious covenanting. Works of this kind, rooted in the Presbyterian and Covenanter heritage, typically argue from scripture for the legitimacy and duty of public and personal covenant with God, examining its nature, its warrant, and its obligations. It is a work of doctrine written for the instruction and edification of the faithful.

Themes

The book turns on the ideas of covenant, obligation, and corporate as well as individual faith, and on the conviction that a people may bind themselves together before God. It reflects a tradition that took public religious commitment with great seriousness, and that saw doctrine and duty as inseparable.

Why it still matters

For those within the Reformed and Covenanter tradition, questions of covenant remain central, and this treatise is a substantial exposition of them. For the historian, it offers a window onto a distinctive strand of Protestant thought and the deep convictions that animated it.

Who it's for

Readers in the Reformed and Presbyterian tradition, students of theology and church history, and anyone drawn to serious devotional and doctrinal writing.