This book has a two-fold purpose. First, it a response to a series of challenges to New Covenant Theology that Dr. Richard Barcellos offered in his book titled In Defense of the Decalogue. The challenges were made to anyone holding to New Covenant Theology in general and to me personally.
Dr. Barcellos’s book is written in an irenic spirit and will prove to be very helpful in the present discussion in Reformed circles on the relationship of the Old and New Covenants. I sincerely hope this response is just as irenic and helpful.
The second purpose of this book is to set forth what New Covenant Theology actually does believe in the eight areas where Barcellos states his objections.
The titles of both books tell the whole story. Barcellos is defending the view that the Decalogue, or “words of the covenant,” written on the stone tablets of the covenant (Exodus 34:27, 28) are the highest expression of the Law of God ever given. We believe the New Covenant revelation given to us by Christ and His apostles is a higher and more demanding law than anything given through Moses. Simply stated, this book asserts that Jesus is a new and higher Lawgiver who replaces Moses in exactly the same way he replaces Aaron as high priest. Barcellos insists that Christ is the greatest exegete of the Law of God given to Moses but in no sense gives any higher or more demanding law than Moses. We believe Christ is not only a Lawgiver but he is the full and final Lawgiver who supersedes and replaces all others.

This is the eighteenth title in print by John G. Reisinger. He lives in New York with his wife Rosemary.

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Blake White's essay tackles a matter that is too often ignored. How does the whole Bible fit together? How should we understand the various covenants in the scriptures? How does the OT law given at Mount Sinai relate to believers today? Mr. White leads us on a very helpful tour of these issues, and his work is a good example of biblical theology. I commend his work for your reading and reflection.
Thomas R. Schreiner
James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

There are many truths and themes which unify the entire canon of Scripture, but probably none as important as the theme of "covenant." However, Christians have disagreed for years precisely how the unfolding covenants of Scripture relate to each other and how they find their fulfillment in Christ. In this helpful introduction to the biblical covenants, Blake White nicely unpacks the redemptive-historical nature of the covenants that is both thoroughly rooted in the biblical text and which paves a needed middle way between Dispensational and Covenant theology, and which, in the end, shows the glory and newness of the new covenant achieved and accomplished by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Stephen J. Wellum
Professor of Christian Theology
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Blake White is a seminarian enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY and member of Third Avenue Baptist Church. He currently lives in Louisville, KY with his wife Alicia.

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