MICHAEL HORTON'S “GOD OF PROMISE, INTRODUCING COVENANT THEOLOGY”

Michael Horton's “God of Promise, Introducing Covenant Theology”

Introduction

In this context, Horton talks about the original alliance of the establishment or its reissue in Sinai and the political organization of the mosaic as a theocracy typological God's eschatological paradise. Therefore, he sees a continuity between the garden until Moses and then to Christ. After the crucifixion is a huge gap ethics occurs until the end. (Horton 2006) He contends that Reformed theology is covenant theology and will not be decreased to the so-called 5 points.

The current gap period has no standards of Scripture with which to inform the social and political order, except common grace and natural revelation. Horton tries to justify this clear distinction based on the analysis of ancient forms derived from GE ANE covenant Mendenhall, Meredith Kline, and work in the old Delbert Hillers. These forms distinguish between a real face of a grant and two-sided form sovereignty. (Malone 2007) Therefore believes that the legal agreement is reproduced in the Garden (published) in the Mosaic covenant (though he graciously gave.) Moses is the law and now we are not under the law. (Typically, under law than under the covenant of works. Under grace does not negate the rules of the Mosaic covenant, but that is then applied to a universalized and non-parochial). (Horton 2006) After the fall, God gave the gospel and its principles of conduct, repeated in the covenant of Abraham and then in the new covenant as an application of a covenant of grace, while skipping the Mosaic covenant. Spirit fulfilling justice, it seems, is only for the individual. There is thus a sharp discontinuity between ethics and ethics of the Gospel of the mosaic.

New insight

The mosaic in no way informs the social and political arena today. The only ...