The Mystery of Christ, His Covenant, and His Kingdom (founders)

“What is this book good for? It establishes a clear linear understanding of the biblical text in its purpose of driving the reader to see how faithfully God executes His purpose in creation. The covenantal framework from Adam to Christ, from creation to consummation is a most apt way of seeing the flow of the entire biblical text. One is lifted into the journey to see the entire scope of divine providence work out the divine decree from generation to generation, book to book, event to event, person to person.” Tom Nettles

Publisher: Founders Press
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781943539154

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Samuel Renihan, PhD, is Adjunct Professor of Theology at the International Reformed Baptist Seminary. Sam is also
a pastor at Trinity Reformed Baptist Church in La Mirada, California where he lives with his wife, Kim, and their son, Owen. He graduated MDiv from Westminster Seminary California and PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam. Sam is the author of various articles and books in English and Spanish, such as The Mystery of Christ, his Covenant, and his Kingdom (2019), Deity and Decree (2020), and Crux, Mors, Inferi: A Primer and Reader on the Descent of Christ (2021).

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“Sam Renihan has served the church well on at least two fronts recently— one historical and the other biblical. His recently published doctoral dissertation, From Shadow to Substance, is an excellent historical survey of the development of seventeenth-century Particular (“Calvinistic”) Baptist covenant theology. His most recent work, The Mystery of Christ, in some senses, is a biblical presentation of the issues covered in his dissertation. The Mystery of Christ is well-written, displays ample knowledge of issues discussed concerning covenant theology by Baptists and paedobaptists, grounds its arguments in scriptural exegesis and theology, recovers old arguments for a new day, presents a cohesive map of the covenants of Scripture, and exalts our Lord Jesus Christ, the last Adam, throughout. Scholarly but never dry; exegetical but never pedantic; pastoral and practical but never trite; this is a fine work.” Richard C. Barcellos, Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Palmdale, CA, and Associate Professor of Exegetical Theology at IRBS Theological Seminary, Mansfield, TX. He is the author of Getting the Garden Right: Adam’s Work and God’s Rest in Light of Christ and The Lord’s Supper as a Means of Grace: More than a Memory.