The Covenant of Grace — One Plan, Two Administrations
As taught in the Reformed / Presbyterian tradition
How the Reformed tradition reads the whole Bible as one unfolding covenant.
The Reformed understanding of soteriology is deeply rooted in Covenant Theology, a framework that explains how God interacts with humanity across redemptive history. According to the Westminster Confession (Ch. 7), the inherent distance between God as Creator and man as creature is so vast that humanity could never attain the fruition of God as their blessedness or reward without God's voluntary condescension. God has been pleased to express this condescension through the mechanism of covenant.
By the end of this lesson
- Distinguish the Covenant of Works (Adam) from the Covenant of Grace (post-fall)
- Trace the unity of the Covenant of Grace from Genesis 3:15 to the New Covenant
- Explain why Reformed theology rejects "two peoples of God"
- Identify infant baptism's grounding in continuity with Genesis 17 / Acts 2:39
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