Meaning of Covenant

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I am reading(and rereading) "Rome Sweet Home" and I am getting confused about the meaning of the word covenant. Just when I think "I have it" Scott Hahn seems to use it in another context. Any thoughts?

-- mary anne eastman (eastmanm@aol.com), October 10, 2001

Answers

Jmj

Hello, Mary Anne.

I have heard Scott Hahn say, several times, that "covenant" studies have been the main scholarly work of his life, beginning while he was a Protestant. The title of his doctoral dissertation at Marquette University was: "Kinship by Covenant: A Biblical Theological Analysis of Covenant Types & Texts in the Old and New Testaments."
In order to understand his thoughts on the subject fully, you may have to read a more recent Hahn book, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love In Scripture.
Until then, I was able to find the following Hahn quotations on the Internet for you:
"... a covenant is a sacred family bond; it's more than just a contract."
"... the New Covenant [is] ... the spiritual supernatural bond that unites us as brothers and sisters ... We are God's family ... We are God's children, purchased with the Lamb's blood ..."

St. James, pray for us.
God bless you.
John

-- (jfgecik@hotmail.com), October 10, 2001.


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