Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 911
Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria
ISBN# : 9781877611834
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Description : Owen characterizes evangelical theology as a gift of the Holy Spirit generating faith in Christ, holiness through Christ, and worship of Christ. The book includes a defense of the authority and proper interpretation of the Bible against the subjectivism of his day. Lovers of theology, and particularly of the Puritans, will welcome this English translation of John Owen's Latin writings. In William Gould's 24-volume edition of Owen's works, this is the one volume that had been unavailable to English readers for years. Banner of Truth has reprinted the first 16 volumes plus the 7-volume commentary on Hebrews, but this volume has been available only in Latin until now.
"This treatise draws on a very wide range of learning. The final part, in particular, where Owen characterizes evangelical theology as a gift of the Holy Spirit generating faith in Christ, is pure gold. Those with a taste for Owen, or for theology, or (best of all) for both, will read this Puritan proto-Biblical Theology with joy."
- J.I. Packer
Owen wrote 24 volumes, and only 23 have been available in reprint. Biblical Theology had been in Latin, and this is the first-ever English edition, translated by Dr. Stephen Westcott. It contains six sections, tracing theology from Adam to the time of Christ. Appendixed is Owen's Defense of Scripture against Fanaticism, which has much to say in the current discussions with Charismatics.