Unholy covenant

Patient-physician covenant.

Medicine is, at its center, a moral enterprise grounded in a covenant of trust. This covenant obliges physicians to be competent and to use their competence in the patient’s best interests. Physicians, therefore, are both intellectually and morally obliged to act as advocates for the sick wherever their welfare is threatened and for their health at all times. Today, this covenant of trust is si...

The New Covenant 5 between

See Bruce A. Ware, “The New Covenant and the People(s) of God,” in Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: The Search for Definition, ed. Craig A. Blaising and Darrell L. Bock (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992), pp. 68–97; with the responses in the same volume by Willem A. VanGemeren, “A Response,” pp. 336–40; Bruce K. Waltke, “A Response,” pp. 350–51; Walter C. Kaiser, “An Epangelical Response,...

Wisdom and Covenant : Revisiting Zimmerli

Should you turn to Choon-Leong Seow's staff profile on the Princeton Seminary website you will find a brief precis of his view on the idiosyncratic nature of Wisdom literature (WL) when compared to the rest of the OT. The website tells us that 'The Old Testament's wisdom literature holds a particular interest for [Seow], in part because he r(qards it as distinctive for the complete absence of t...

Supervenience, Emergence, and Epiphenomenalism: Physicalism’s Unholy Trinity

Debt Covenant Design and Creditor Control Rights: Evidence from Covenant Restrictiveness and Loan Outcomes

Using three measures of covenant restrictiveness, I examine the association between the ex ante design of debt covenant restrictiveness and the ex post exercise of creditor control rights. I find that contracts with higher level of covenant restrictiveness at loan origination are more likely to subsequently experience both covenant violations and renegotiations, suggesting that stricter covenan...