papers by Lee Irons
Biblical Theology
Biblical Theology and Systematic
Theology (HTML)
Walther Zimmerli as Biblical
Theologian (PDF 25 pp.)
The Theology of Atonement
in Leviticus (PDF 23 pp.)
Christology
The Eternal Generation
of the Son (HTML)
Outline of R. P. Martin's book on
Philippians 2:5-11 (PDF 13 pp.)
Covenant Theology
Works in the Mosaic
Covenant: A Survey of Major Covenant Theologians (PDF 20 pp.)
The Subservient Covenant:
A 17th Century Precursor of Kline's View of the Mosaic Covenant
(PDF 22 pp.)
Redefining Merit: An
Examination of Medieval Presuppositions in Covenant Theology
(PDF 29 pp.)
Kline
on the Works Principle in the Mosaic Economy: An Exposition (PDF 28 pp.)
Response to Merit and Moses:
A Critique of the Klinean Doctrine of Republication
(PDF 43 pp.)
Meredith Kline's By Oath Consigned
Compared with Kingdom Prologue (PDF 39 pp.)
Covenantal Baptism
The Oikos Formula (PDF 12 pp.)
How Should We Treat Our Covenant
Children? (PDF 11 pp.)
Eschatology
Paul's Theology of Israel's
Future: A Non-Millennial Interpretation of Romans 11 (PDF 25 pp.)
Will There Be a Golden Age Before
Christ Returns? (HTML)
Entering God's Rest by Faith:
Realized Eschatology in Hebrews 3:7-4:11 (PDF 36 pp.)
Prophetic Idiom (PDF 3 pp.)
Genesis Debates
The Framework Interpretation: An Exegetical Summary (HTML)
Animal Death Before the Fall: What Does the Bible Say? (HTML)
Review of The Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of
Creation (HTML)
Adam and Evolution
(PDF 18 pp.)
Greek New Testament
Influence of the Septuagint
on the Greek New Testament (PDF 17 pp.)
Tips for Reading the Greek NT (PDF 2 pp.)
Greek NT One-Year Calendar (PDF 1 p.)
Greek NT Two-Year Calendar (PDF 2 pp.)
Justification
Beyond Probation (HTML)
Righteousness for the Unrighteous (HTML)
Aspects of the
Doctrine of Justification According to Reformed Theology (PDF 20 pp.)
Law-Gospel Contrast
Countering 10 Arguments
Against the Law-Gospel Paradigm (PDF 17 pp.)
Miscellaneous Studies
"He Descended Into Hell" (PDF 17 pp.)
The Use of "Hellenistic Judaism" in Pauline
Studies (PDF 50 pp.)
Review of Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament
Study by Markus Bockmuehl (PDF 14 pp.)
Matthew's Use of Isa 42:1-4 in Matt 12:17-21 (PDF 5 pp.)
Missional Movement
A Critique of Tim Keller's
"Evangelistic Worship" (Revised; PDF 32 pp.)
The Sentimental
Gospel of The Jesus Storybook Bible (PDF 5 pp.)
New Perspective on Paul
Romans 2:13: Is Paul Coherent? (PDF 70 pp.)
Romans 2:13 SBL Poster (one PowerPoint slide)
Seyoon Kim's Critique of the New Perspective on Paul (PDF 19 pp.)
Theonomy and Two Kingdoms
Common Theonomic Arguments (HTML)
The Reformed Theocrats:
A Biblical Theological Response (PDF 46 pp.)
The 1788 American Revision
of the Westminster Standards (PDF 15 pp.)
Theonomy and the 1788
American Revision (PDF 23 pp.)
Kline's View of the
Cultural Mandate (PDF 27 pp.)
Third Use of the Law
Not Under the Law but Under Grace (PDF 12 pp.)
Recovering the Marrow
Tradition in the Westminster Confession's Doctrine of the Law (PDF 32 pp.)
The Law in the Hand
of Christ (PDF 9 pp.)
by Meredith Kline
Covenant Theology
What is a Covenant? (HTML)
Covenant Theology Under
Attack (HTML)
Answering Objections to
the Covenant of Works (HTML)
Two Adams, Two Covenants of
Works (PDF 31 pp.)
Typology, Two-Level Fulfillment,
and Kline's Critique of Dispensationalism (PDF 24 pp.)
Comments on the A. A. Hodge
One-Covenant Construction (HTML)
Kline on the
Works Principle in the Mosaic Economy (PDF 17 pp.)
Handouts based on Kline's Lectures
Kline's Grid (PDF 1 p.)
Kline's Covenant Theology (PDF 1 p.)
A Glossary of Klinean Terminology (HTML)
Kline's Covenantal
Analysis of the Law (PDF 2 pp.)
The Use of the Treaty Format in the
Mosaic Covenant (PDF 1 p.)
Christ and Culture: Four Views (PDF 2 pp.)