Online Journal Article: "The Federal Theology And The History Of Redemption In Jonathan Edwards’s Biblical Exegesis" JETS 61.4 (2018): 785–803

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JETS 61.4 (2018): 785–803
"THE FEDERAL THEOLOGY AND THE HISTORY
OF REDEMPTION IN JONATHAN EDWARDS’S
BIBLICAL EXEGESIS"
by GILSUN RYU
Abstract: This article examines the relationship between Jonathan Edwards’s federal theology and his biblical exegesis. While there is substantial discussion of Edwards’s view of the covenant, no one has addressed the interrelationship of the federal theology and exegetical perspective in Edwards. Edwards developed his federal theology from his biblical exegesis focusing on
the theme of history of redemption. Edwards’s federal schema stands with the central soteriological topics in his theology. He believes the promises in the covenant of redemption were revealed
to God’s people in the covenant of grace and accomplished by Christ’s fulfillment of the covenant of works. Moreover, the full effect of Christ’s work of redemption will be wholly revealed
through the entire history of redemption which culminates at the end of the world. This implies
that Edwards’s exegetical view of federal theology concentrates on the historical aspects in which
he emphasizes redemptive history.
Key words: Jonathan Edwards, the federal theology, biblical exegesis, the history of redemption, the covenant of redemption, the covenant of works, the covenant of grace