Covenant

A covenant is a solemn agreement to engage in or refrain from a specified action. It is commonly found in religious contexts, where it refers to sacred agreements between a god and human beings. It may also refer to:

Religion

• Covenant (biblical)
• Covenant (Latter Day Saints), in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sacred agreement between God and a person or group of people.
• Covenant (religion) – a formal alliance or agreement made by God with a religious community or with humanity in general. An example of a covenant relationship in Judaism and Christianity is that between Abraham and God, in which God made a covenant with Abraham that He would bless Abraham's descendants making them more numerous than the stars.
• Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, in the Bahá'í Faith
• Covenant theology, a form of Calvinist philosophy which views all of history under the aspect of God's covenants
• Covenantal Theology (Roman Catholic)
• Mosaic covenant, the eternal covenant between God and Israel, of which the Shabbat is declared to be the sign forever.
• New Covenant, a Christian concept, that Jesus Christ was the mediator of a New Covenant, fulfilling the Mosaic covenant.

Law and government

• Covenant (historical), historical term for treaties or other agreements
• Covenant (law): Covenants in a legal setting, particularly real covenants restricting the use of property
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, a United Nations treaty
• Palestinian National Covenant of 1964, which outlined the aims of the Palestine Liberation Organization
• Ulster Covenant of 1912, which protested against a British home-rule bill
• Solemn League and Covenant of 1643, a treaty for the preservation of the reformed religion in Scotland
• Covenanters, a historical Scots political organization bound together to support the National Covenant of 1638 and the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643
• Covenant Party (disambiguation), various political parties
• Covenant marriage, a marriage contract which does not allow for no-fault divorce

Finance

• Loan covenant, a set of conditions that may be placed by a lender on a borrower in a commercial loan.

Places and institutions

• Covenant Life, Alaska, a town in Alaska
• Covenant Bible College Canada, a vocational/Bible college located in Strathmore, Alberta
• Covenant Day School, private Christian School in Charlotte, North Carolina
• Covenant College (disambiguation), the undergraduate institution of the Presbyterian Church in America (and other Covenant Colleges)
• Covenant Health Systems, a New England health care company
• Covenant Theological Seminary, the denominational seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America
• Covenant University, private university in Nigeria

Literature

• The Covenant (novel), a novel by James Michener set in South Africa that takes place between prehistory and the 1980s
• Covenant (World of Darkness), ideological establishments consisting mostly of Vampires in the fictional World of Darkness universe
• Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, the protagonist of a series of fantasy novels by Stephen R. Donaldson'

Film and television

• The Covenant (film), a 2006 supernatural film
• Covenant (Alias), a powerful and secretive fictional terrorist organisation in the TV show Alias
• "Covenant" (DS9 episode), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• "Covenant" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
• "The Covenant", a third season episode of Walker, Texas Ranger

Music

• Covenant (band), a Swedish synthpop / EBM / Futurepop band.
• Covenant, former name of the Norwegian band now called The Kovenant
• Covenant (Morbid Angel album), the third official full-length album by death metal band Morbid Angel
• Covenant (UFO album), the 16th album by heavy metal band UFO
• Covenant (Greg Brown album)

Video games

• Shadow Hearts: Covenant, console role-playing game developed by Nautilus and published by Midway in 2004
• Covenant (Halo), a religious alliance of alien races in the Halo video game series

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