{"id":159,"date":"2015-03-02T02:33:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T02:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tencommandmentssigns.us\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2015-03-02T02:34:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T02:34:52","slug":"jonathan-edward-vs-covenant-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tencommandmentssigns.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/jonathan-edward-vs-covenant-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Edward vs. Covenant Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a18f45b5eb3a2018a15e81c375bf2cff\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 336x280, created 10\/19\/10 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1409304071275289\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6253000559\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Jonathon Edwards is sometimes viewed as the last of the Puritans. This is a mistake. He was not among the \u201cCalvinist ancients.\u201d He is better described as the first of the \u201cCalvinist moderns.\u201d Edwards\u2019 theology of experientialism helped to destroy Calvinist covenant theology in America, which is one reason why virtually all modern scholars praise him as the greatest theologian in American history: he abandoned \u201clegalism.\u201d He took predestination, humanistic rationalism, postmillennialism, and emotionalism, and he fused them into a non-covenantal theology. His theology was antinomian. But the biblical covenant model depends on the presence of God\u2019s Bible-revealed stipulations. Heimert is correct: Edwards repudiated the covenant as a meaningful concept. His itinerant Arminian imitators did not even begin with the older covenant model, let alone repudiate it implicitly, as he did. Their spiritual heirs in the next generation were even more adrift covenantally in a new nation and new society.\u00a0\u2014 Gary North<\/p>\n<p>From page 367 of <a href=\"http:\/\/freebooks.commentary.net\/freebooks\/docs\/21f2_47e.htm\">Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism<\/a> by Gary North.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathon Edwards is sometimes viewed as the last of the Puritans. This is a mistake. 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