Soli Deo Gloria said: Ron D, please explain the dispi-tendencies that Kline holds.
I dont know much about Kline.
Would you say that I have dispi-tendencies from what I wrote in Post #45684? Thanks
Murray held that the covenant under Moses was an administration of the one covenant of grace. Kline would argue that this economy included a recapitulation of the covenant of life (or "works", whichever you prefer) that Adam operated under prior to the fall. What this means I'll let you figure out. Below is a quote from Lee Irons and an excerpt from Kline.
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Employing a distinction (adumbrated in the thought of Owen and Witsius) between the operation of the works-principle at the typological level and the underlying, foundational promises of grace, Kline explains further how the Mosaic Covenant did not annul the Abrahamic promise:
Kline:
The explanation for this is that the old covenant order was composed of two strata and the works principle enunciated in Leviticus 18:5, and elsewhere in the law, applied only to one of these, a secondary stratum. There was a foundational stratum having to do with the personal attainment of the eternal kingdom of salvation and this underlying stratum, continuous with all preceding and succeeding administrations of the Lord's Covenant of Grace with the church, was informed by the principle of grace (cf., e.g., Rom 4:16). Because the Abrahamic covenant of promise found continuity in the Mosaic order at this underlying level, it was not abrogated by the latter. The works principle in the Mosaic order was confined to the typological sphere of the provisional earthly kingdom which was superimposed as a secondary overlay on the foundational stratum … The Israelite people corporately could maintain their continuing tenure as the theocratic kingdom in the promised land only as they maintained the appropriate measure of national fidelity to their heavenly King (Kingdom Prologue, pp. 321-22).
End Kline
By distinguishing these two levels - the typal kingdom of the Israelite theocracy in the land, and the antitypal eternal kingdom of salvation - Kline is able to argue that the works-principle applied only to the former, which was "superimposed as a secondary overlay" on the foundational stratum of the Abrahamic promise, through which alone the eternal kingdom of salvation was attained by the elect within Israel.
I'd be happy to take a look at the post if you provide a link. I"m sure there's a way to access it by number alone, but I'm not that clever! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
