Thanks for stopping by. I'm a professor of history at Queen's University Belfast, and I write about history, culture and religion in early modern Britain, where I have special interests in John Owen ("the Atlas of the Independents") and J. N. Darby ("the Goliath of dissent"), and in the modern United States of America, where…
Another conversation about Owen
It was great to talk to the hosts of the Gospel Reformation-UK podcast about Owen, here.
An invitation to John Owen
From the Gospel Reformation-UK blog: Few puritans have suffered as much as John Owen has suffered at the hands of his admirers. Ask almost anyone in Reformed circles about the greatest seventeenth-century protestant theologian, and they will tell you about his books – all bound in green, and all lined up on a high shelf,…
A conversation about Owen
It was great to talk to Colin Campbell of the Evangelical Bookshop in Belfast about "An introduction to John Owen." You can see the conversation here. https://www.facebook.com/evangelicalbookshop/videos/2813358988894545/
John Owen’s student readers in c18th Glasgow
A new database, published at the University of Glasgow, records student borrowings from the library between 1757-1771. This reveals that Owen's works were borrowed by 10 students and on 15 occasions. In 11 of these instances, students were borrowing volumes of his commentary on Hebrews. But they were borrowing Ossian on almost twice as many…
Podcast on Owen – The New Books Network
I talk about Owen on The New Books Network here.
A contemporary complaint about Owen’s Primer (1652)
Podcast on Owen – Servants of Grace
I talk about Owen on the "Servants of Grace" podcast here.
More on “being like the angels”
John Owen’s Ministry to Young Christians
My article on the Crossway blog: John Owen specialized in ministry to young people. That’s not how he tends to be remembered, of course. Ask most people what they know about the most famous of the Puritans and they will tell you that he wrote a lot of very complicated books. That belief is partially…
10 Things You Should Know about John Owen
My article on the Crossway blog: This article is part of the 10 Things You Should Know series. 1. John Owen’s life was incredibly difficult. Born in 1616 and dying in 1683, Owen lived through the deaths of his first wife and all of his children, several of whom died in very early childhood. He…
