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Testamental-Discontinuity

The new covenant is materially different from the old, not merely differently administered — a dispensationalist tendency rejected by the Standards.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Testamental Continuity is One-Substance-Different-Administrations. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Other positions on Testamental Continuity

One-Substance-Different-Administrations WCF The covenant of grace is one and the same in substance through both testaments, differently administered (WCF VII.6) — the bedrock of the Standards' use of OT material. Replacement-Of-Israel The church wholly replaces ethnic Israel with no remaining peculiar covenantal relation — the Standards leave open a future of ethnic Israel (cf. LC's silence).

Cite this position

Study Reformed, “Testamental-Discontinuity” (Position), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/position/covenant/testamental_continuity/discontinuity/.

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