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£140.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567688743
Number of Pages: 600
Width: 16.9 cm
Height: 24.4 cm

Evaluating the writings of one of the most significant religious figures in early modern England, this volume summarizes Owen’s life, explores his various intellectual, literary and political contexts, and considers his roles as a preacher, administrator, polemicist and theologian. It explores the importance of Owen, reviews the state of scholarship and suggests new avenues for research.

The first part of the volume offers brand-new assessments of Owen’s intellectual formation, pastoral ministry, educational reform at Oxford, political connections in the Cromwellian revolution, support of nonconformity during the Restoration, interaction with the scientific revolution and understanding of philosophy. The second part of the volume considers Owen’s prolific literary output. A cross-section of well-known and frequently neglected works are reviewed and situated in their historical and theological contexts.

The volume concludes by evaluating ways that Owen scholarship can benefit historians, theologians, biblical scholars, ministers and Christian readers.

Abbreviations

1. Introduction, Crawford Gribben (Queen’s University Belfast) and John W. Tweeddale (Reformation Bible College, USA)

Part 1: Owen’s contexts
2. Owen’s life, Michael A. G. Haykin (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA)
3. Owen as a theologian, Ryan M. McGraw (Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA)
4. Owen’s intellectual context, Richard A. Muller (Calvin Theological Seminary, USA)
5. Owen and politics, Crawford Gribben (Queen’s University Belfast)
6. Owen the preacher, Martyn C. Cowan (Union Theological College, Northern Ireland)
7. Owen and education, Eric Newton (BJU Seminary, USA)
8. Owen and the Church of England, Lee Gatiss (Union School of Theology, UK)
9. Owen the polemicist, Paul C.-H. Lim (Vanderbilt University, USA)
10. Owen and scientific reform, Katherine Calloway (Baylor University, USA)
11. Owen and philosophy, Paul Helm

Part 2: Owen’s writings
12. A display of Arminianisme (1643), Christopher Cleveland (Veritas Academy, USA)
13. Salus electorum, Sanguis Jesu: or, The death of death in the death of Christ (1648), Timothy Robert Baylor (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)
14. Of the mortification of sinne in believers (1656), Joel R. Beeke (Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, USA)
15. Exercitations on the epistle to the Hebrews (1668), John W. Tweeddale (Reformation Bible College, USA)
16. A discourse concerning the Holy Spirit (1674), Andrew M. Leslie (Moore Theological College, Australia)
17. The nature of apostasie (1676), Tim Cooper (University of Otago, New Zealand)
18. The doctrine of justification by faith (1677), Whitney Gamble-Smith (The Master’s University, USA)
19. Meditations and discourses on the glory of Christ (1684), Suzanne McDonald (Western Theological Seminary, USA)

Part 3: Owen today
20. Retrieving Owen, Kelly M. Kapic (Covenant College, USA)

Bibliography
Contributors
Owen’s Works Index
Author and Subject Index

Dr. John W. Tweeddale (Reformation Bible College, USA), Professor Crawford Gribben (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

John W. Tweeddale is Vice President of Academics and Professor of Theology at Reformation Bible College, USA.

Crawford Gribben is Professor of Early Modern British History at Queen's University Belfast, UK.

At a time when John Owen is receiving increased attention as a historical figure and as a Reformed theologian, this Handbook, bringing together essays on aspects of Owen's thought and life and on selected writings, is a welcome atlas guiding those interested in Owen's historical context or as a contemporary resource. -- Kenneth P. Minkema, Yale University, USA John Owen was one of the major English thinkers of the seventeenth century. This volume, which assembles a remarkable team of contributors, offers state-of-the art research written in an accessible style. It will be an indispensable and easily-navigated source for anyone interested in theological, social and intellectual history. -- Anne Dunan-Page, Aix-Marseille University, France

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