| 单词 | federal theology | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasfederal theology   federal theology  n. Theology (in Calvinist thought) theology organized around the idea of an Old Testament Covenant of Works and a New Testament Covenant of Grace (see sense  A. 1a); cf. covenant theology n. at covenant n. Additions. ΚΠ 1878    Encycl. Brit. VI. 91  				As one of the leading exponents of ‘federal’ theology, he [sc. Cocceius] spiritualized the Hebrew Scriptures to such an extent that [etc.]. 1939    P. Miller New Eng. Mind xiii. 397  				In the federal theology the Old Testament Jehovah begins the metamorphosis..from a mail-clad seigneur to a skillful teacher who contrives that pupils be brought to truth not by compulsion but by conviction. 2000    H. S. Pyper in  A. Hastings et al.  Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 497/1  				In selecting the concept of covenant on which to centre his OT theology, Eichrodt was following in a tradition that harks back to the so-called federal theology of Cocceius. < as lemmas | 
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