Traditionally, the formal origin of covenant theology goes back to Cocceius. However, elements of the covenant theology can be found throughout the whole Scriptures in a broad sense. The notion and language of covenant, grace, works, and promise were well known by the early Church and Catholic theologians before the Reformation. Passages such as Gen. 3:15, Rom. 11, Deut. 29;1, and Hos. 6:7, show such language, for example. Nonetheless, properly speaking, the theology of covenant as we know it today has its origin in the larger development of the sixteenth-century Reformation. Zwingli, a contemporary of Luther, is known for defending …
