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John Owen (1616 – 24 August 1683) was an English Puritan Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford. One of the most prominent theologians in England during his lifetime, Owen was a prolific author who wrote articles, treatises, Biblical commentaries, poetry, children's ...
John Owen (born 1616, Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Aug. 24, 1683, London) was an English Puritan minister, prolific writer, and controversialist. He was an advocate of Congregationalism and an aide to Oliver Cromwell, the lord protector of England (1653–58).
Jul 22, 2020 · 8. Owen trusted the Bible and the work of the Spirit after writing about both. Owen was not a philosophically-driven, rationalist theologian. His writing abounds in biblical citations. It is molded and contoured by biblical revelation.
John Owen (1616 - 1683) was an English theologian and "was without doubt not only the greatest theologian of the English Puritan movement but also one of the greatest European Reformed theologians of his day, and quite possibly possessed the finest theological mind that England ever produced" ("Owen, John", in Biographical Dictionary of ...
Dec 9, 2022 · Volume 7 of The Complete Works of John Owen includes 2 treatises on illumination and biblical interpretation—written by 17th-century theologian John Owen and edited for modern readers by Andrew Ballitch.
Aug 24, 2013 · John Owen (1616–August 24, 1683) was one of the world’s greatest Reformed theologians. Originally a Presbyterian, Owen, influenced by the works of John Cotton, came to believe in a more Congregational form of church government.
Born at Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, Owen was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he studied classics and theology and was ordained. Because of the "high-church" innovations introduced by Archbishop William Laud, he left the university to be a chaplain to the family of a noble lord.
