Kelly M. Kapic - The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owens Theology

THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO JOHN OWENS THEOLOGY

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RESEARCH
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The Ashgate Research Companions are designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companions editors bring together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.

Edited by

KELLY M. KAPIC
Covenant College, USA

MARK JONES
University of the Free State, Bloemfontein

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Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones 2012

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The Ashgate research companion to John Owens theology.

1. Owen, John, 1616-1683. 2. Theology--History--17th
century.
I. John Owens theology II. Kapic, Kelly M., 1972
III. Jones, Mark.
230.59092-dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Ashgate research companion to John Owens theology / edited by Kelly M. Kapic and Mark Jones.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-3488-7 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-3489-4 (ebook) 1. Owen, John, 1616-1683. I. Kapic, Kelly M., 1972- II. Jones, Mark, 1980- III. Title: Research companion to John Owens theology.

BX5207.O88A84 2012

230.59092--dc23

ISBN 9781409434887 (hbk)
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Ryan Kelly

Sebastian Rehnman

John W. Tweeddale

Willem J. van Asselt

Gert van den Brink

Crawford Gribben

Kelly M. Kapic

Suzanne McDonald

Edwin Tay

Alan Spence

Robert Letham

George Hunsinger

Tim Cooper

John Coffey

Daniel R. Hyde

Lee Gatiss

Martin Foord

Compiled by John W. Tweeddale

John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of monographs on two contemporaries of Owen, Samuel Rutherford and John Goodwin. He has also written Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 15581689 (Longman, 2000), and co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion (Notre Dame, 2009).

Tim Cooper is Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism (Ashgate, 2001) and John Owen, Richard Baxter and the Formation of Nonconformity (Ashgate, 2011).

Martin Foord is Lecturer in Systematic Theology and Church History at Trinity Theological College, Perth, Australia. He is an ordained Anglican minister and his research interests are in twelfth- to seventeenth-century theology.

Lee Gatiss is Visiting Lecturer in Church History at Wales Evangelical School of Theology. He has studied history and theology at Oxford and Cambridge, and has a ThM in Historical and Systematic Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He trained for Anglican ministry at Oak Hill in London, and has served churches in Oxford, Kettering, and London as well as recently lecturing in Cambridge, Greece, and Hungary. He is the editor of Theologian (www.theologian.org.uk) and author/editor of several books on Puritan themes such as The Tragedy of 1662 (2007), Pilgrims, Warriors, and Servants (2010), and Preachers, Pastors, and Ambassadors (2011). He is currently in Cambridge working on John Owens commentary on Hebrews.

Crawford Gribben is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and Associate Professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of a number of studies of Puritan theology, including The Puritan Millennium: Literature and Theology 15501682 (2000) and Gods Irishmen: Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland (2007), and is currently writing an intellectual biography of John Owen.

George Hunsinger is Princeton Theological Seminarys Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology. His major publications include, For the Sake of theWorld: Karl Barth and the Future of Ecclesial History (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004); Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001); and How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology (Oxford University Press, 1991).

Daniel R. Hyde is the Pastor of the Oceanside United Reformed Church in Carlsbad/Oceanside, California. He earned his master of divinity degree from Westminster Seminary California and his master of theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, with a thesis entitled, Of Great Importance and of High Concernment: The Liturgical Theology of John Owen. Rev. Hyde has written 11 books, including God in Our Midst: The Tabernacle and Our Relationship with God (Reformation Trust, 2012), 12 Thessalonians in the Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Tolle Lege, 2012), Why Believe in God? (P&R, 2011), and Welcome to a Reformed Church: A Guide for Pilgrims (Reformation Trust, 2010).

Mark Jones (PhD, Leiden Universiteit) is Research Associate at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. He is also senior minister at Faith Vancouver Presbyterian Church (PCA). He has authored and edited several works, including Why Heaven Kissed Earth (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010), Drawn into Controversie (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), and A Puritan Theology (Reformation Heritage Books, 2012).

Kelly M. Kapic (PhD, Kings College, University of London) is Professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, where he has taught for over a decade. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of seven books, including The Devoted Life: An Invitation to the Puritan Classics and Communion with God: The Divine and Human in the Theology of John Owen.

Ryan Kelly is the Pastor for Preaching at Desert Springs Church in Albuquerque, NM, and a Council Member of The Gospel Coalition. An alumnus of Oxford University, his PhD thesis on John Owen is soon to be complete with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.