Description: This book explores the debates between dispensational and covenantal theological systems. The author identifies how Christians have attempted to relate the Testaments, placing viewpoints along a spectrum of discontinuity to continuity, and sympathetically summarizes and critically evaluates each system's concerns.
Brief description: Benjamin L. Merkle (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Dr. M. O. Owens Jr. Chair of New Testament Studies and research professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than forty books, including Greek for Life, Exegetical Gems from Biblical Greek, Linguistics and New Testament Greek, Beginning with New Testament Greek, and Going Deeper with New Testament Greek. He is also the editor of Southeastern Theological Review.