Covenant is a “bible word” that is rarely used outside of the context of a certain kind of theology. As a result, covenant is the kind of thing that you either think a whole lot about, or not about at all. I think that Thomas Schreiner’s Covenant and God’s Purpose for the World, an entry in the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series which I really love, is ideal reading for the person in the second camp, the kind of person who never thinks about the idea of covenant. If you have not thought about covenant much, you will benefit tremendously from the survey that Schreiner gives to this very important biblical theme.