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Stephen Burnhope
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“Reformed covenant theology seems to build its case on three main premises. Firstly, that the old covenant was revoked because Israel so thoroughly violated it (a punitive supersessionism). Secondly, the old covenant was in any event only ever temporary. Thirdly, the efficacy of the old covenant was not actually as Israel took it to be, at face value; rather than dealing with Israel’s transgression (as its practitioners would quite reasonably have supposed at the time) it was instead to remind her of her transgressions and point her to Christ to come.”
― Atonement and the New Perspective: The God of Israel, Covenant, and the Cross
― Atonement and the New Perspective: The God of Israel, Covenant, and the Cross
“It is precisely as one of the diverse streams recognizing themselves as Judaism, says Neusner, that we must classify “Christianity”—“The earliest Christians were Jews, who saw their religion, Judaism, as normative and authoritative.”564”
― Atonement and the New Perspective: The God of Israel, Covenant, and the Cross
― Atonement and the New Perspective: The God of Israel, Covenant, and the Cross
“Israel’s participation in the divine covenant in Torah was a daily reality—every aspect of the life of the community was being lived out in accordance with what God had said. It was not primarily a matter of belief but one of praxis. To do the works of the law was the faithful response to a covenant that Israel understood actually to exist. Living “in Torah” was not a likening to something, it was the substance of something—an “enacted reality”: So long as theologians conceive their task as primarily elucidating biblical “ideas,” they will continue to miss the fundamental significance of covenant in the biblical tradition. Covenant is not an “idea” to be embraced in the mind, and therefore religious community cannot be defined with respect to “orthodox” appraisals of that idea. Covenant is an “enacted reality” that is either manifested in the concrete choices individuals make, or not.918”
― Atonement and the New Perspective: The God of Israel, Covenant, and the Cross
― Atonement and the New Perspective: The God of Israel, Covenant, and the Cross
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