Reddit reviews Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants

I have not read it myself, but Kingdom Through Covenant comes highly recommended from very trusted friends. It does not present strict covenant theology, nor is it focused on its baptistic qualities, but it presents a covenantal and baptistic view that appreciates some of dispensationalists and almost all of classical Reformed covenant theology.

Check out Kingdom Through Covenant by Gentry and Wellum (both professors at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary).

I live in Louisville, and I know a lot of people affiliated with The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary here. It is definitely uniformly reformed in terms of soteriology. As far as full adherence to 1689, you will find some diversity. Some profs are definitely down with it, some are a bit looser. For instance, regarding Covenantalism, the authors of Kingdom through Covenant are both professors there. The sacramentology tends to lean towards a Zwinglian memorialist view, but I don't think a spiritual presence view would be out of line there. All in all, I'm pretty sure it is a great Baptist seminary, and it is certainly welcoming to 1689ers, but is not exclusive to 1689ers.

Most everything I've heard about Southeastern Baptist (in NC) is in keeping with what I've heard about The Southern Baptist.

Out west, I've heard good things about Western Seminary. It was founded as a Conservative Baptist school, though I'm not sure if it is fully affiliated anymore. And there is Golden Gate Baptist in the Bay Area, which is an SBC school, though not nearly as reformed as the other two I mentioned.

This is good. I have one area that set off my "Baptist alarm."

>the obligations of the weaker party to the stronger

I would argue that what may appear to be a covenantal condition on Abraham's part is actually a set of commands to obey that are part of a second covenant. The covenant that God made with Abraham based on faith was unconditional. Some translations like ESV arrange the wording of Genesis 17 to make it sound like the faith covenant was conditional, but I think other versions like HCSB have it more accurate. Rather I see a second covenant of circumcision as separate which has different terms, and I think that is one major point of disagreement between Baptists and Presbyterians. Not meaning to start a debate, but I will be glad to have a back and forth. I mainly wanted to point out the alternative view. :)

For a "baptisty" take on the covenants, I would recommend

Kingdom through Covenant by Schreiner and Gentry.