An Important New Book! Reformed Covenant Theology from Dr. Harrison Perkins

I am thrilled to see this remarkable volume now available in print. I was privileged to read a draft copy of the manuscript and found it both comprehensive and well-written. Dr. Perkins is one of the rising, young, scholar-pastors in the Reformed tradition, and it is my hope that this volume introduces him to a wide audience. This is a book which belongs on your bookshelf, but only after it is thoroughly dog-eared and heavily highlighted. This is good stuff.

Reformed scholarship in the field of biblical theology (Vos, Kline, Horton, Gaffin, Beale, etc.,) has done great work in advancing our understanding of the nature of covenants in the ancient world, as well as explain how these breakthroughs ought to inform the way we read and understand our bibles in light of the broad course of redemptive history. For some time, the Reformed scholarly pendulum has swung in the direction of biblical theology, but with this volume we may begin to see the pendulum swing back in the direction of a more systematic approach, hopefully to a place of balanced equilibrium.

Perkins incorporates this rich data (biblical theology) into a comprehensive survey of Reformed covenant theology, treating in order the covenant of works, the covenant of redemption, the covenant of grace, and the administration of the covenant of grace in light of God’s covenant with Moses. On each of these topics, Perkins brings to bear biblical, systematic, historical, and confessional concerns in a thoughtful, wise, and lucid way.

This just may be one of the best theological treatises on Reformed covenant theology since Herman Witsius’s two-volume, The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man (1677).

Dr. Perkins writes as a pastor, so those who might be worried that this is but another meaty theological tome written for pointy-headed academics will find your own heads much better rounded after reading it.

You can order Dr. Perkin’s Reformed Covenant Theology here at a substantial discount.

By the way, he makes a mean peanut butter on toast.