What Does Covenant have to do with Creation | Michael Allen
Lecture Title - Into the Family of God: Creation, Covenant, and the Genesis of Life with God
The book of Genesis sketches the foundations not only of human society and creatureliness but of the church and Christian worship. To help make sense of both origins and ends of creation, the book draws our attention to the doctrine of the covenant and the pledge that people are drawn “into the family of God.” In this lecture, Allen will follow the basic theological moves of the doctrine of the covenant in this fundamental text, seeking to sketch its implications for a number of theological and anthropological concerns, not least the doctrine of creation.
R. Michael Allen (PhD Wheaton College) is John Dyer Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and Academic Dean at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is co-author of A Companion to the Theology of John Webster (Eerdmans, 2021) and author of The Fear of the Lord: Essays on Theological Method (T&T Clark, 2021).