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Obama seemed to want to weave back into America’s civic-republican fabric some tough old threads of Abrahamic, covenantal faith.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024

It will be about the covenantal relationship, which he said requires each person to consider the safety of their neighbor.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2020

It stands for the idea that our covenantal institutions — like family, faith, tradition and community — orient us toward higher loves and common dreams that we then pursue in the great gymnasium of liberty.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2018

There was a political realm, but the heart of society was in the covenantal realm: “marriages, families, congregations, communities, charities and voluntary associations.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2017

Van Os, of Zwolle, attacked the accepted covenantal theory, and the doctrine of immediate imputation.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)