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John Owen

Type: Person

Alternate Labels

John Owen (1616–83)
Owen, John
Owen, John (1616–83)
Prince of Puritans

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Reading List

1. By John Owen

Works of John Owen

A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ—God and Man. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 1:1–272.
Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ in His Person, Office, and Grace. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 1:273–415.
Meditations and Discourses concerning the Glory of Christ. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 1:417–61.
Two Short Catechisms. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 1:463–94.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 2:1–274.
A Vindication of Some Passages in a Discourse Concerning Communion with God. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 2:275–364.
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 2:365–454.
A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit, edited by William H. Goold, 3:1–651.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 5:1–400.
Gospel Grounds and Evidences; or, The Faith of God’s Elect. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 5:401–57.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 1–86.
Of Temptation. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 87–151.
The Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency of the Remainders of Indwelling Sin in Believers. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 153–322.
A Practical Exposition upon Psalm 130. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 323–648.
The Nature of Apostasy from the Profession of the Gospel and the Punishment of Apostates Declared, in an Exposition of Heb. 6:4–6. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 1–259.
The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 261–497.
A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 499–560.
A Display of Arminianism. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 10:1–137.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 10:139–428.
Of the Death of Christ, the Price He Paid, and the Purchase He Made. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 10:429–79.
A Dissertation on Divine Justice. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 10:481–624.
The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance Explained and Confirmed. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 11:1–666.
The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 12:1–616.
A Review of the Annotations of Hugo Grotius. In The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold, 12:617–39.

Other Writings

Hebrews. The Crossway Classic Commentaries, edited by Alister McGrath and J. I. Packer.

2. About John Owen

Article in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Breward, I. “Puritan Theology.” New Dictionary of Theology, 550–53.
Cross, F. L., ed. “Owen, John.” The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 1210–11.
Douglas, J. D. “Owen, John.” Who’s Who in Christian History.
Lagassé, Paul, ed. “Owen, John.” The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
Spence, Alan. “Owen, John (1616–83).” The Dictionary of Historical Theology, 412–14.
Toon, Peter “Owen, John (1616–1683).” Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith, 269–70.
Toon, Peter. “Owen, John (1616–1683) << libronixdls:jump%7Cpos=LLS-AOL%3A484%3CName197%3E.0.0%7Cref=topic%2Btopics.Owen%2C_John%7Cres=LLS%3A7.0.7.” Evangelical Dictionary of Theology.
Trueman, Carl. “Owen, John.” Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, 494–97.

Article in Journals

Hannah, John. “The Cure of Souls; or, Pastoral Counseling: The Insight of John Owen.” RAR 5 (Summer 1996): 71–92.
Howson, Barry H. “The Puritan Hermeneutics of John Owen: A Recommendation.” WTJ 63:2 (Fall 2001): 351–75.
Jones, Douglas. “Liturgy Lessons from Owen.” RAR 5 (Summer 1996): 111–17.
Lim, Paul. “The Trinity, Adiaphora, Ecclesiology, and Reformation: John Owen’s Theory of Religious Toleration in Context.” WTJ 67:2 (Fall 2005): 281–300.
Knapp, Henry. “Augustine and Owen on Perseverance.” WTJ 62:1 (Spring 2000): 65–87.
McKinley, David J. “John Owen’s View of Illumination: An Alternative to the Fuller–Erickson Dialogue.” BSac 154:613 (January 1997): 93–104.
Oh, Changlok. “Beholding the Glory of God in Christ: Communion with God in the Theology of John Owen (1616–1683).” WTJ 68:2 (Fall 2006): 362.

Article in Books

Packer, J. I. “John Owen on Communication from God.” In A Quest for Godliness, 80–96.
Packer, J. I. “‘Saved by His Precious Blood’: An Introduction to John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ.” In A Quest for Godliness, 124–48.
Packer, J. I. “The Spirituality of John Owen.” In A Quest for Godliness, 190–218.
Packer, J. I. “John Owen on Spiritual Gifts.” In A Quest for Godliness, 218–230.
Payne, Don J. “John Owen.” In The Theology of the Christian Life in J. I. Packer’s Thought, 55–56.
Piper, John. “Communing with God in the Things for Which We Contend: How John Owen Killed His Own Sin While Contending for Truth.” In Contending for Our All, 77–114.
Shedd, William G. T. “Owen, John.” In Dogmatic Theology, 3rd ed., 967.
Thomson, Andrew. “Life of Dr Owen.” In The Works of John Owen, 1:xix–cxii.

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