My review of Fool, by Peter K. Andersson, in The New Criterion, here.

Just published: “J.N. Darby and the roots of dispensationalism”

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Andrew Bonar, Andrew A. Bonar, and “The development of Antichrist” (1853)

So here's an unusual story. About 20 years ago I wrote a short chapter on Andrew A. Bonar, the nineteenth-century Scottish presbyterian minister and theologian who is now best-known for his edition of the letters of Samuel Rutherford and of the memoirs and remains of Robert Murray McCheyne. The chapter appeared in a book called

Palaeography workshop

At the end of last month, Martyn Cowan and I led an introduction to palaeography seminar at Union Theological College, Belfast. We had ten PhD students and recent graduates, from across the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. After familiarising ourselves with typical secretary hand forms, we used goose quills, oak gall ink and early modern

R. M. Beverley on John Owen

Another early Plymouth brother admiring the prince of the puritans "us, who are Calvinists, and that, too, of the rigid view … those Calvinists who, though now decidedly in the minority, would appeal to Dr Owen as a sound expositor of their creed. In that minority I rank myself." "Owen's works will never be laid

John Owen’s lost Huguenot letters

Adam's Quibell's new article in Journal of Ecclesiastical History Fast on the heels of Zach McCulley's discovery of eight new transcriptions of Owen sermons comes Adam Quibell's translation of a set of almost entirely overlooked letters between the leading Independent theologian and his French interlocutors. This superb piece of scholarship situates this correspondence in terms

Belfast conference, June 2024 dv: “New directions in John Owen studies”

There aren’t many early modern literary figures - never mind theologians - who are getting as much attention as John Owen. Long regarded as difficult, Owen is the subject of a rapidly growing array of doctoral theses, scholarly articles, popular introductions, monographs, and handbooks. Long regarded as obscure, he is becoming ever more popular as a

Another great year in Owen studies

We're little more than half-way through the year, and already 2023 is shaping up to be a great year for those of us interested in the life and work of John Owen. It's only August, and already the Owen corpus has been presented with new texts and situated in new contexts. The most important of

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