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At the very beginning of the history of the covenant idea, human beings were conceived as entering into a morally grounded and informal pact with God. Politically, this pact, or covenant, involves the coming together of basically equal humans who consent with one another through a morally binding pact, setting the partners on the road to a new task. As a theological and political concept,... Read more
Introduction: Covenant and the Three Separations; I: Beginnings and Separations; 1: Covenant Traditions in the West; 2: Medieval and Modern Separations; II: Medieval Expressions of Oath and Pact; 3: Feudalism: Covenantal Fraud, Heresy, or Synthesis?; 4: The Holy Roman Empire; 5: Oaths and Covenants in the Mountains and Lowlands; 6: Oath Societies in Greater Scandinavia; 7: The British Isles: Frontier, West, and Borderlands; III: Reformation Federalism; 8: Federal Theology and Politics in the Reformation; 9: The Political Theology of Federalism; 10: The Aborted Spread of Reformed Federalism in Germany and France; 11: The Netherlands: The Covenant and the United Provinces; IV: Puritans and Covenanters; 12: English Puritanism; 13: The Puritans, the Civil War, and Beyond; 14: The Reformation of Covenanted Scotland; 15: Scotland and Covenant after Union: A Case Study; V: The Survival and Revival of Covenant; 16: A Proper Covenantal Commonwealth
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Daniel Elazar
