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Topic 43: The Theology of John Owen

Richard E. Burnett, 2026

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Topic 43: The Theology of John Owen

The bibliography provides an introduction for pastors to the some of the most important works of John Owen, the “Prince of the English Divines,” namely, Owen’s Communion With the Triune God, Overcoming Sin and Temptation, Christologia, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. It also includes a biography by Crawford Gribben and helpful commentary on Owen’s work by Suzanne McDonald.

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43. THE THEOLOGY OF JOHN OWEN

Seminar Reading

Owen, John. Communion With the Triune God. Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor, editors. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2007. 444 pp.

_________. Overcoming Sin and Temptation. Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor, editors. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2015. 464 pp.

_________ Christologia: Or A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ. In The Works of John Owen. William H. Goold, editor. Vol. 1, The Glory of Christ, Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1965, repr. 2008. 274 pp.

_________. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. Second edition. Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2024. 440 pp.

Gribben, Crawford. John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of Defeat. Oxford University Press, 2016; paperback 2017. 401 pp.

McDonald, Suzanne, “Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ (1684).” In Crawford Gribben and John Tweeddale, editors, T&T Clark Handbook of John Owen. T&T Clark, 2022, pp. 461–486.

Supplementary Reading

Ferguson, Sinclair B. John Owen on the Christian Life. Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1987. 297 pp.

Barrett, Matthew and Michael Haykin. Owen on the Christian Life: Living for the Glory of God in Christ. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2015. 296 pp.

McDonald, Suzanne. “John Owen’s Discourse on the Holy Spirit.” In Michael Allen & Scott Swain, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology, pp. 266-279. Oxford University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198723912.013.17

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Burnett, Richard E. “Topic 43: The Theology of John Owen.” 2026. PDF. Bibliographies, Foundation for Reformed Theology. https://foundationrt.org/resource/topic-43-the-theology-of-john-owen/.

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