This article offers some statistics from Heinrich Bullinger’s The Decades with a brief analysis as evidence that Bullinger must be understood as the forerunner, not the father, of federal theology, due to his discussion of the covenant doctrine is limited, inconsistent, exploratory, and slightly integrated with the rest of his theological thought. Having tested Baker and McCoy’s thesis that Bullinger’s doctrine of the covenant is an organizing and central principle in most of his published works (especially in The Decades), one arrives at the conclusion that their thesis is not totally accurate. One might observe that Bullinger cannot be considered …

Ranging three centuries, McCoy and Bakers attempt to trace the development of federalism from 16th-century Reformers until the start of political federalism with the promulgation of the United States Constitution. They try to retrieve the role that federalism has had in modern society (political/philosophical federalism) and in theology (covenant theology), pointing it out Heinrich Bullinger as the first one to start this tradition. In general, federalism highlights the importance of covenants in the relation between God and humankind, even it can be applied to the relation between humans or social groups, for instance. In this regard, if McCoy and Baker …