New-Covenant Theology: New Kid on the Block?

You must have heard something like this: New-covenant theology? Must be wrong! It was only dreamed up in the 1970s, wasn’t it? Doesn’t that make it the latest in the line of Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah Witnesses, and all the other hare-brained schemes? Steer well clear of it! This is the kind of cheap jibe that new-covenant men and women have come to expect from the Reformed. And, speaking for myself, I have no difficulty living with it. I say this because I want to make it clear that I am not writing out of anguish, desperately trying to defend myself. Nor am I, strictly speaking, trying to persuade died-in-the-wool covenant theologians. The truth is, I fear they are so locked in their system that it will take something far more potent than this little article to shake them out of their complacency. No! I don’t have the ‘professional’ covenant theologians in mind at this time.