By Oath Consigned: A Reinterpretation of the Covenant Signs of Circumcision and Baptism

by Meredith G. Kline

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1975

Overview

Covenant theologian Meredith C. Kline wrote this volume in defense of infant baptism.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Circumcision, whether partial or complete, was an act of consecration” (Page 44)

“Jesus’ reception of John’s baptism can be more easily understood on this approach. As covenant Servant, Jesus submitted in symbol to the judgment of the God of the covenant in the waters of baptism. But for Jesus, as the Lamb of God, to submit to the symbol of judgment was to offer himself up to the curse of the covenant. By his baptism Jesus was consecrating himself unto his sacrificial death in the judicial ordeal of the cross.” (Page 58)

“For as we have previously observed in connection with both circumcision and baptism, the curse of the ordeal may be suffered by the forsworn in himself, but it is undergone by the elect as a soteric experience in their identification with the Redeemer.” (Page 81)

“The difference is rather that redemptive covenant adds promise to law. Redemptive covenant is simultaneously a promise administration of guaranteed blessings and a law administration of blessing dependent on obedience, with the latter foundational.” (Page 32)

“John indeed compared his ministry and that of Jesus explicitly in terms of baptism (Matt. 3:11, 12). It is, therefore, important to observe that in the revelation associated with John, baptism is emphatically a sign of eschatological judgment.” (Page 51)

Product Details

• Title: By Oath Consigned: A Reinterpretation of the Covenant Signs of Circumcision and Baptism
• Author: Meredith G. Kline
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1975
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Covenant theology; Baptism; Circumcision; Initiation rites › Folklore
• ISBNs: 9780802816214, 0802816215
• Resource ID: LLS:THCNSGNDCRBPTSM
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:19:05Z

About Meredith G. Kline

Meredith G. Kline (1922–2008) was professor emeritus of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Westminster Seminary California. He also taught at Claremont School of Theology and Reformed Theological Seminary. He received his BD and ThM from Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) and his PhD in Assyriology and Egyptology from Dropsie College. Professor Kline maintained an active writing and teaching ministry, and was also an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.