Gribben An Introduction to John Owen

A Christian Vision for Every Stage of Life
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4335-6968-5
Verlag: Crossway
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E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Over 3 centuries since his passing, Puritan John Owen continues to impact readers through his writings. With over 8 million words published in 80 titles, his topics were as diverse as they were many, ranging from theological works to sociopolitical topics such as the proper nurture and education of children. An Introduction to John Owen by Crawford Gribben is a theological survey of these works, inviting readers to experience anew the grace of God as they go through the Christian life. For Owen, spiritual life was about increasing in grace and goodness, in fellowship with each member of the Trinity. This exploration captures the vision of the Christian life that Owen wished for his readers to have and distills it into an accessible companion volume.

Crawford Gribben (PhD, University of Strathclyde) is professor of early modern British history at Queen's University Belfast, and previously served as associate professor of early-modern print culture at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Crawford is also the author of the groundbreaking biography John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of Defeat.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gribben, Crawford

Leseproben

Time Line

1616	Owen is born in Stadhampton, Oxfordshire.

1626	Owen enters Edward Sylvester’s school, Oxford.

1628	Owen enters the Queen’s College, Oxford.

1632	Owen graduates with a bachelor of arts and is ordained as a deacon by John Bancroft, bishop of Oxford.

1635	Owen graduates with a master of arts.

1637	Owen leaves Oxford without clear prospects for employment.

1638	Owen is ordained as a priest by John Bancroft, bishop of Oxford.

1641–1642

Owen acts as chaplain for Sir Robert Dormer of Ascot and John, Lord Lovelace of Hurley.

1642	With the outbreak of civil war, Owen leaves the Lovelace household, takes lodgings near Smithfield, London, and gains assurance of salvation under the preaching of an unknown minister.

1643	Owen publishes his first book, A Display of Arminianism, becomes minister of Fordham, Essex, and marries Mary Rooke.

1644	Owen’s first son, John, is born.

1645	Owen publishes his two catechisms.

1646	Owen becomes minister of Coggeshall, Essex, and preaches to the House of Commons for the first time at the conclusion of the First Civil War.

1647	Owen’s daughters Mary and Elizah die.

1648

Owen’s son Thomas dies. The Second Civil War erupts, and Owen’s attendance at and preaching after the siege of Colchester brings him to the attention of Thomas, Lord Fairfax; into the orbit of the army; and ultimately to the attention of Oliver Cromwell. Owen publishes The Death of Death in the Death of Christ.

1649

After the trial and execution of Charles I, England becomes a republic. Owen preaches to members of Parliament (MPs) on the day after the regicide and comes to national attention. Owen’s only surviving child, John, dies. Owen meets Oliver Cromwell and joins his invasion of Ireland; he spends the autumn preaching and writing in Dublin, while the army subjugates the island in a series of controversial actions, and for the first time he notes that his ministry has been attended by conversions.

1650	Owen returns home to the birth of a daughter, Mary, who is by then his only living child, and almost immediately joins Cromwell’s summer invasion of Scotland; he preaches in Berwick and debates with Presbyterians in Glasgow.

1651	Owen’s daughter Elizabeth is born, and Owen is appointed as dean of Christ Church, University of Oxford.

1652

Owen preaches at the state funeral of Henry Ireton, Cromwell’s son-in-law. He chairs the committee that reports on the errors of the Racovian Catechism and begins to define the theological boundaries of a national religious settlement in The Humble Proposals; he publishes The Primer and is appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.

1653	Owen’s regular preaching in Oxford is recorded by students, including Thomas Aldersey.

1654

Owen becomes a “trier” and adjudicates which preachers should be supported by the state. He is noted as being out of sympathy with the increasingly conservative direction of the government of the republic; is elected as an MP to the first Protectoral Parliament, where he is associated with republican critics of the Cromwellian regime; but is almost immediately forced to resign his seat on account of his being ordained. Owen publishes The Doctrine of the Saints’ Perseverance.

1655	Owen raises forces in Oxford to combat a royalist rising, publishes his anti-Socinian polemic Vindiciae Evangelicae, and takes part in discussion about the readmittance of the Jews.

1656	Two of Owen’s sons, whose names are not recorded, die. Owen publishes Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers.

1657

Owen publishes Of Communion with God. Reflecting his increasing concern about the direction of government, he writes a statement on behalf of republican army officers to oppose the proposition that Cromwell should be offered the crown. Owen’s term as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford is not renewed, though his leadership of Christ Church continues.

1658

Owen publishes Of Temptation, several books on schism, and discussions of the nature of Scripture. Oliver Cromwell dies, and his son Richard succeeds him as Lord Protector. Owen and other Independents revise the Westminster Confession as a national statement of faith that becomes known as the Savoy Declaration. Owen walks in the procession attending Cromwell’s funeral alongside other civil servants, including John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and John Dryden.

1659

Owen preaches his last sermon to MPs and gathers a congregation at Wallingford House, London, from which he coordinates responses of army republicans to increasing political chaos and fears of renewed civil war. Owen corresponds with George Monck, commander of the army in Scotland, who is marching south, about his intentions regarding the political settlement, but Monck plays for time while also communicating with the exiled king.

1660

Owen leaves Christ Church and returns to Stadhampton, where he gathers a church in his home. Monck’s march south provokes panic in London, which is followed by desertions from the army in England, and so enables the return and restoration of Charles II. Owen is not listed among those to suffer exemplary punishment for their participation in the revolution, but some of his political and religious colleagues experience public deaths of extraordinary cruelty, following which their dismembered corpses are displayed around London.

1661	Uncertain of how to understand the sudden reversal of his hopes, Owen...