German Calvinism in the Confessional Age: The Covenant Theology of Caspar Olevianus

In this publication of his revised doctoral dissertation (Duke, 1980), Lyle Bierma, professor of theology at Reformed Bible College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, offers a careful and detailed study of the covenant theology of Caspar Olevianus (1536-1587), best known as the co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism. “My general purpose,” Bierma states, “is to take a new and hard look at Olevianus’s doctrine of covenant and to determine its place in the larger picture of sixteenth-century Reformed covenant thought” (p. 12). View Less