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It is written because in a time where the Church in the West is in decline, it seems most necessary to deepen the understanding with regards to theological challenges that come with the missiological context of the secular West. The methodology is based upon descriptive research, which was guided by a main research question. The answering of the main question was done through answering four subquestions, and those four answers were key to most of the main content in the thesis. The first chapter starts with an introduction that describes the methodology, which is followed by a review of literature. Chapter two is about the characterization of a reformational theology of ministry, which is presented with the three principles of Gospel, Culture, and Movement. Chapter three then deals with the characterization of the secular West, in which it is first about the distinctiveness of the West and then about the concepts of postmodernity and post-Christian as essential insights into secularism. After that comes chapter four that has the focus on the characterization of the missional Church, which is described though an exploration of the missiological foundational elements of discipleship and faithful presence. The fifth chapter starts with summarizing the findings, followed by describing the characterization of the missional Church in the secular West, which is done by elaboration on six basic elements. These six basic elements are: Christian high theory, post-Christendom evangelistic dynamic, category defying social vision, counter-catechesis for a digital age, faithful presence in public spheres, and grace to the point. 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I believe Calvin’s construction of the church better serves God’s people by placing skilled teachers of doctrine into church leadership, thereby letting pastors focus on the care of souls. The first chapter presents a cursory overview of the topic. The second chapter provides two important historical overviews: a biography of John Calvin and a history of European theological education. In addition, a brief portrait of higher education—Calvin’s Academy of Geneva—will be provided to observe his doctor of the church in practice. The third chapter will expound on Calvin’s main literary works that discuss the doctor of the Church: Romans 12:4-8, Draft of Ecclesiastical Ordinances, 1 Corinthians 12:28-31, Ephesians 4:11-14, Acts 13:1-3, and his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559). The final chapter will explore three American Presbyterian denominations—Presbyterian Church (United States of America), Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and Presbyterian Church in America. Their various books of church order will be reviewed, along with their respective institutions of higher education—Princeton Theological Seminary, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Covenant Theological Seminary. 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Such historical criticism tends to hold an evolutionary view of Israelite religious development, proposing a national origin in polytheistic belief and a later shift into a new understanding of the aniconic worship of their primary deity. This follows a larger trend in biblical scholarship which proposes a cadre of later redactors with varied agendas and theological emphases who assembled the Hebrew Bible; and it was one of these who purportedly instated the strict image ban for his own, much later, political moment. These critical views ultimately hold the biblical text as a biased and unreliable historiography.\r\n\r\n        This thesis will instead employ a methodology that treats the text in its final form and adheres to a traditional view of divine instigation and guidance of Israel’s national worship. It will argue that the idol ban of the second commandment was necessarily delivered at Israel’s founding, being rooted in God’s immutable character and making explicit reference to the Creator-creation distinction in Genesis, a cosmology distinctly rebutting that of ancient polytheism. Further, a comparative method will be used to study the idol consecration rituals of the ancient Near East, revealing that idolatry was much more insidious than merely “bow[ing] to a block of wood” (Isa 44:19). As a gateway device to a deadly philosophy, idols were fundamentally and terminally opposed to the truth of God. With a view to the literary and theological unity of the text, therefore, it is imperative that the image ban be delivered to the exodus community at their national founding, and that it should stand in stone for Israel, and for the church, for all time.\r\n"],"rights_statement_tesim":["https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"related_url_tesim":["https://www.covenantlibrary.org/etd/2023/Ochoa_Anna_MABTS_2023.pdf"],"thumbnail_path_ss":"/assets/work-a3b75da7abded620ab321410c80d102e5e2417b71c54de7ba7d4b0363da904f7.png","suppressed_bsi":false,"actionable_workflow_roles_ssim":["admin_set/default-default-approving","admin_set/default-default-depositing","admin_set/default-default-managing"],"workflow_state_name_ssim":["deposited"],"visibility_ssi":"open","admin_set_tesim":["Default Admin Set"],"account_cname_tesim":["rim.ir.atla.com"],"human_readable_type_tesim":["Etd"],"read_access_group_ssim":["public","work_editor"],"edit_access_group_ssim":["admin"],"edit_access_person_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"_version_":1817352208169041920,"timestamp":"2024-12-02T17:55:24.794Z","score":1.0},{"system_create_dtsi":"2024-10-30T20:18:59Z","system_modified_dtsi":"2024-10-30T20:20:24Z","has_model_ssim":["Etd"],"id":"19613e53-fd94-4a7c-99f1-d61a04f30b2c","accessControl_ssim":["89f40536-cb20-46b8-8bb7-95d374cd4447"],"depositor_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"depositor_tesim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"title_tesim":["The Pactum, simplicity, and the covenant of life : the covenant of life's origin in the Pactum Salutis and regulation via divine simplicity"],"date_uploaded_dtsi":"2024-10-30T20:18:59Z","date_modified_dtsi":"2024-10-30T20:20:24Z","isPartOf_ssim":["admin_set/default"],"hasEmbargo_ssim":["b5eb8560-3bc5-4f88-aed1-318dd3424cd6"],"hasLease_ssim":["83d4ba54-d252-40a1-b519-ce03eb4eb500"],"show_pdf_viewer_tesim":["1"],"show_pdf_download_button_tesim":["1"],"institution_tesim":["Atla RIM"],"degree_tesim":["MABTS","Master of Arts in Biblical \u0026 Theological Studies"],"degree_granting_institution_tesim":["Covenant Theological Seminary"],"year_tesim":["2023"],"resource_type_tesim":["Thesis"],"types_tesim":["Text"],"creator_tesim":["Kassing, Samuel"],"subject_tesim":["God (Christianity)--Simplicity","Bible. 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From this viewpoint, the interpreter can offer a more faithful coordination of divine beneficence and divine justice that allows them to delineate proper and improper ways of constructing the covenant of life based upon our understanding of divine beneficence and simplicity. 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Isaiah","Social justice"],"abstract_tesim":["This thesis considers whether Isaiah portrays divine spirit as an agent of societal justice. Mišpāṭ, ṣədāqâ, ṣedeq, and rûaḥ all occur frequently in the book of Isaiah. Some occurrences of mišpāṭ, ṣədāqâ, and ṣedeq refer to societal justice, specifically to right conduct with respect to the poor and needy members of the community. As we will observe in the chapters that follow, Isaiah scholarship has noted the importance of societal justice as a major theme of the book evidenced, in particular, in the opening chapters. While not every occurrence of rûaḥ in Isaiah refers to divine spirit, i.e., the invisible activity of God in the midst of his people, a number of its occurrences do have this meaning. There are six texts in Isaiah (4:2–6; 11:1–9; 28:5–6; 32:15–20; 42:1–9; 61:1–11) where mišpāṭ, ṣədāqâ, and/or ṣedeq may relate to societal justice and occur in close proximity to rûaḥ. This thesis considers each of these six texts to determine (1) whether it refers to divine spirit, (2) whether it refers to societal justice as reflected in concern for the poor and needy, and (3) the relationship between divine spirit and societal justice in each text.\r\n\r\nFollowing chapters of introduction, literature review, and methodology, the fourth chapter contains a lexical analysis of mišpāṭ, ṣədāqâ, ṣedeq, and rûaḥ. The fifth chapter contains a historical-grammatical exegesis of the six texts seeking to answer the three questions set out above. Chapter six states the thesis’s conclusions.\r\n\r\nThis thesis finds that all six texts speak of divine spirit. In some texts (11:1–9; 32:15–20; 42:1–9; 61:1–11) this conclusion is straightforward as rûaḥ is described as coming from the Lord upon a person or people. Isaiah 4:4 instead speaks of the Lord effecting a purifying judgment by means of “a spirit of judgment” and “a spirit of burning.” In Isaiah 28:5–6 the Lord himself becomes “a spirit of justice” to the one who exercises judgment.\r\n\r\nThe thesis also finds that all six texts with the exception of Isaiah 42:1–9 clearly or likely speak of societal justice as seen in concern for the poor and needy. The vocabulary and context of Isaiah 11:1–9 and 32:15–20 show that these texts clearly refer to societal justice. While the distinctive vocabulary of societal justice is lacking in Isaiah 4:2–6 and 28:5–6, the context within which these texts appear makes it likely that they refer to societal justice. Isaiah 61:1–11 presents a vision of future shalom which, in view of its context and vocabulary, likely includes societal justice. Isaiah 42:1–9’s lack of distinctive vocabulary and its implied audience and literary context make it unlikely that it refers to societal justice. \r\n\r\nFive of the texts (11:1–9; 28:5–6; 32:15–20; 42:1–9; 61:1–11) show a direct relationship between divine spirit and whatever from of “justice” is in view in the text. 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