The Incarnation of the Abstract: New Covenant Theology and the Enfleshment of the Law

This week’s Think Tank presentation is a work in progress….


At the center of what we hold to be true about the glory of the New Covenant as it is found in and revealed by Jesus Christ is the Incarnation. Without the Incarnation, Christ’s death and resurrection and exaltation have no discernible and lasting impact on humanity. It is the Incarnation that makes Christ’s death effective for His People. And it is inseparable from those great questions for which New Covenant Theology has been providing answers. The New Testament’s interpretation of the Old, the Obsolescence of the Mosaic Covenant and its Law, the priority of Jesus in our orthodoxy and orthopraxy, the rhythm of promise and fulfillment in redemptive history, the temporarity and eternality of the great covenants of the Scriptures — all those things that distinguish New Covenant theology — are grounded in what we believe to be true about the Second Person of the Godhead robing himself in human flesh. The fountainhead of New Covenant Theology springs from an eschatological Christology which asserts the priority of the Promised Messiah who is God become Man. The question that arises from this seminal thought of NCT’s is this: what does the Priority of Jesus have to do with New Covenant ethics?


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Taken from “The Incarnation of the Abstract: New Covenant Theology and the Enfleshment of the Law“ 

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