Foundations of Covenant Theology: A Biblical-Theological Study of Genesis 1-3

by Lane G. Tipton

Publisher:

Reformed Forum

, 2021

Overview

Drawing from Genesis 1:1 and subsequent biblical revelation, Lane Tipton argues that before creating the visible world, the immutable triune God created a heavenly temple dwelling, filled that heavenly dwelling with the unchanging glory of his Spirit, and sanctified that heavenly dwelling as the realm of everlasting Sabbath rest.

Adam, as the created image of God and federal head of his posterity, could have advanced through perfect covenantal obedience beyond probation on the mountain of God in earthly Eden into the heavenly dwelling of God in Sabbath rest. This God-centered and heaven-focused theological backdrop enriches our understanding of the person and work of Jesus Christ, as the second and last Adam in the covenant of grace, who in his humiliation and exaltation has opened the gates of heavenly paradise for his church.

Key Features

• Argues that before creating the visible world, the immutable triune God created a heavenly temple dwelling.
• Enriches our understanding of the person and work of Jesus Christ.
• Argues that God sanctified that heavenly dwelling as the realm of everlasting Sabbath rest.

Contents

• Abbreviations
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Glory of the Triune God
• 3. The Absolute Beginning
• 4. The Holy Spirit Fills the Heaven-Temple
• 5. The Creation of the Visible Heavens and Earth
• 6. Eden as the Place of Worshipful Ascent to God
• 7. Created in Religious Fellowship with God
• 8. The Covenant of Works
• 9. The Tree of Life and Sabbath Rest
• 10. The Fall into Sin and the Promise of Redemption
• 11. The Promised Seed
• 12. The Second and Last Adam
• Glossary
• Scripture Index

Product Details

• Title: Foundations of Covenant Theology: A Biblical-Theological Study of Genesis 1-3
• Author: Lane G. Tipton
• Publisher: Reformed Forum
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 144
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780998748757, 0998748757
• Resource ID: LLS:FNDTNSCVNNTGN13
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-17T19:00:46Z

About Lane G. Tipton

Dr. Lane Tipton is the Charles W. Krahe Chair Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, pastor of Trinity Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Easton, Pennsylvania and Fellow of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Reformed Forum. He has taught at Westminster since 2003 and is ordained as a teacher in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Tipton is the author of Foundations of Covenant Theology: A Biblical-Theological Study of Genesis 1–3 and teaches the Fellowship in Reformed Apologetics, a comprehensive curriculum on the theology and apologetics of Cornelius Van Til. He coedited the anthologies Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Apologetics (2007), with K. Scott Oliphint, and Resurrection and Eschatology: Theology in Service of the Church; Essays in Honor of Richard B. Gaffin Jr. (2008), with Jeffrey C. Waddington. His essays include “The Gospel and Redemptive-Historical Hermeneutics,” “Resurrection, Proof and Presuppositionalism: Acts 17:30–31,” and “Biblical Theology and the Westminster Standards Revisited: Union with Christ and Justification ‘Sola Fide.’ ”

He is a frequent panelist on the Christ the Center podcast and most notably, its Vos Group series in which he discusses Geerhardus Vos’ Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments.