Covenant Theology with John Fesko

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this wide-ranging discussion, Kevin sits down (actually, they were both standing up) with his RTS colleague, John Fesko, to talk about covenant theology. In addition to doing a deep dive on the covenant of redemption and the covenant of works, Kevin and John talk about life and ministry and writing more broadly. They finish their time by talking about a never-before-translated-into-English volume of Vos’s lectures on natural theology. Want to know more about biblical theology, systematic theology, historical theology, exegetical theology? This episode has a little bit of something for everyone.

Timestamps:

Intro and Sponsor [0:00-1:34]Guest Intro: John Fesko [1:35-7:12]Pursuing Ministry or Academia? [7:13-15:44]Why Write 1,500+ Pages on Covenant Theology? [15:45-21:37]The Research and Writing Process [21:38-29:54]Is the Covenant of Redemption Biblical? [29:55-38:56]Is There More than One Divine Will? [38:57-44:15]Is the Covenant of Works Biblical? [44:16-55:29]Is Republication Biblical? [55:30-1:03:12]Geerhardus Vos' Natural Theology [1:03:13-1:13:37]

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0:00.0	readings and salutations good to have you back our loyal listeners or if you're disloyal we're still
0:17.3	glad to have you welcome to life and books and everything i'm kevin de young and glad to have you. Welcome to Life and Books and Everything. I'm Kevin DeYoung and glad to have you with us.
0:24.6	And our special guest is John Fesco, who I'll give a chance to introduce himself in just a moment. So glad to have him here and talk some theology and talk about some of his books.
0:34.6	But I want to just say thanks again at the outset to Crossway
0:38.3	for sponsoring life and books and everything. Crossway does so many great things. There's lots of
0:44.9	great publishers out there, and I'm thankful that Crossway sponsors this program. What they do at the
0:49.8	beginning of kind of a podcast season is they give me a list of books that they suggest I mention as they
0:57.5	come out. So I just looked at this 10 seconds ago, and it's a little awkward, but today I'm
1:04.0	supposed to mention the biggest story Bible storybook by Kevin DeYoung and illustrated by Don
1:10.0	Clark. So there you go.
1:12.9	If you haven't seen that yet, you can check out the biggest story, Bible storybooks,
1:18.4	storybook Bible, something or other 104 stories, 52 from the Old Testament, from the New
1:24.1	Testament, wonderful illustrations from Don Clark.
1:29.4	And maybe you can look at it for Easter, give it to somebody. But Crossway did an amazing job on that book. All right. We have John Fesco.
1:39.8	John, thank you for being here on the program. And I've read your books for many years, and now,
1:45.5	as of the last couple of years, I can say that we're colleagues at Reform Theological Seminary,
1:50.8	which I'm grateful for, though you're in Jackson, I'm in Charlotte. So why don't you start by
1:56.3	giving us a little bit about yourself, your family, your academic career, why you moved
2:05.3	from California to Mississippi. Yeah. You know, I have, when I was younger, I was in high school
2:13.7	and some, my church had Youth Sunday. And this is when I was in the Baptist church and on
2:20.2	youth Sunday there was a slot to sign up to do the sermon and I told my parents I said I don't know why
2:26.2	I just feel like I need to do that and so my pastor was kind enough to help me you know do my first
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