NSBT 33: Covenant and Commandment

Works, Obedience and Faithfulness in the Christian Life.
A key issue in Christianity is the nature of works or obedience or faithfulness
in the Christian life. While evangelicals can generally agree that one enters
into a covenant relationship with God by grace (even solely by grace) apart
from works, there is often much more disagreement over how to construe the
nature of works, or obedience, inside this covenantal relationship. From a
close study of key Old and New Testament texts, Bradley Green shows that in the
new covenant, works or obedience will be a God-elicited, real and necessary
part of Christian life. (= 9780830826346)
Contents: Introduction 1. The New Testament and the reality and necessity of works, obedience and
faithfulness 2. Obedience, works and faithfulness: moving from Old Testament to New
Testament 3. Old covenant, new covenant and the history of redemption 4. The cross and the reality of works, obedience and faithfulness 5. Union with Christ and its relationship to works, obedience and
faithfulness 6. Justification, judgment and the future 7. The reality and necessity of works, obedience and faithfulness Epilogue Bibliography
...to know Jesus, to confess him as Lord, entails obeying him. But how " does this reality relate to a plethora of complementary themes? Dr Green
addresses this question by soundings in an impressive diversity of
topics... - D.A. Carson"
Series: New Studies in Biblical Theology.
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