Is CT a heremeneutic?

[JM]

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What is covenant theology? The straightforward, if provocative answer to that question is that it is what is nowadays called a hermeneutic -- that is, a way of reading the whole Bible that is itself part of the overall interpretation of the Bible that it undergirds. A successful hermeneutic is a consistent interpretative procedure yielding a consistent understanding of Scripture in turn confirms the propriety of the procedure itself.
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It is a hermeneutic that forces itself upon every thoughtful Bible-reader who gets to the place, first, of reading, hearing, and digesting Holy Scripture as didactic instruction given through human agents by God himself, in person; second, of recognizing that what the God who speaks the Scriptures tells us about in their pages is his own sustained sovereign action in creation, providence, and grace; third, of discerning that in our salvation by grace God stands revealed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, executing in tripersonal unity a single cooperative enterprise of raising sinners from the gutter of spiritual destitution to share Christ's glory for ever; and, fourth, of seeing that God-centered thought and life, springing responsively from a God-wrought change of heart that expresses itself spontaneously in grateful praise, is the essence of true knowledge of God. Once Christians have got this far, the covenant theology of the Scriptures is something that they can hardly miss.
Do you agree that CT heremeneutic?

ON COVENANT THEOLOGY

Thanks.

j

 

[LamorakDesGalis]

CT is a theological system of interpretation with certain presuppositions, preunderstandings and prioritization of Biblical truths. It is these which distinguish the different systems of interpretations from one another, and also highly influences how one interprets Scripture.


LDG

 

[Jerrysch]

CT is a theological system of interpretation with certain presuppositions, preunderstandings and prioritization of Biblical truths. It is these which distinguish the different systems of interpretations from one another, and also highly influences how one interprets Scripture.


LDG

This is true. Typically the difference between CT and its counterpart dispensationalism is that while CT used a literal hermenuntic with most of Scripture, it breaks down when prophecy is encountered, Dispensational theology in contrast seeks to employ a consistant literal hermeneutic, it does however admit that figures of speach are contained within the Bilical test, but it insists that these figures have a singular literal consept to which the figure ponts.