John Owen - A Recap

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Currently I'm trying to pile my way through John Owen's the Death of Death in the Death of Christ, for those of you who don't know who John Owen is, there's a reason I just linked to his wikipedia page1.

Here is a recap of what you've been missing so far given to you from my extensive notes on the book:

  • By 'end' he means 'purpose / point / result / main aim'.
  • That four-fold view of the Cross that Stott puts forth in The Cross of Christ? Stolen from Owen. Except Owen has another point. Burn.
  • By 'expressions of the Holy Spirit' he means 'the bible'.
  • Towards the end of the first chapter he reveals that the book is written to oppose the idea that Christ's death saves everyone in the world. He argues that Christ's death only saves those that believe.
  • By 'chasma megas' he means 'I am a pretentious muppet'.

And so on. I have lots of notes, I won't tell you them all now, or it'll take all day. I haven't worked out whether he'd buy an iPhone yet or not, but I'm leaning towards yes.

1 For those of you allergic to wikipedia, "John Owen (1616 - August 24, 1683) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian." He was very smart. He wrote some books.


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Gareth

Steve Griff would be very impressed by a post about Owen, Steve loves him proper loads!

When I was the only one who remembered about Owen's covenant stuff he got very excitely happy!


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