That You May Prosper: Dominion by Covenant

God deals and meets with His people through covenant. The most fundamental institutions of life - church, family, and state - are all covenantal. In this book, Bp. Sutton lays out what he sees as the "model" structure that underlies all covenant making. At points, his conclusions and applications are a bit aggressive; but overall, this is an excellent book.The publisher's claims are puffery-bordering-on-balderdash. Only read his comments after you've read Sutton's.

Sutton here introduces for the first time the 5-point covenantal model, which North later uses in his Economic Commentary on the Bible (or at least the Pentateuch), and Chilton used for his Days of Vengeance (commentary on Revelation; and frankly, I don't see how Revelation can be understood as clearly any other way than through Sutton's model). Agree or not, this is groundbreaking stuff, and deserves a careful read.

This book was the final key to the Christian Reconstructionist movement's overall vision. (Which vision is merely the logical outworking of a consistent Reformed world and life view, attached to an optimistic view of the spread of Christ's Kingdom on Earth) & lt;P & gt; Rev. Sutton's thesis is, that there is a five-point covenantal structure to the Old Testament as well as to the New, and the form this five-point model takes is that it revolves around the ancient Near East peace treaties, used by other nation