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 devotional writer, a trend that carefully edited daily reading books and the impressive 40-volume Crossway edition, now coming into print, will do much to consolidate. The excitement around Owen reflects the fact that, even after decades of high-quality publications, we are only beginning to explore his 8 million or so published words. It’s only in the last few years that scholars have really begun to push past his dogmatic statements to think about his interest in other fields of knowledge. And the Owen corpus isn’t even complete. One of the most extraordinary developments in the last few years has been the discovery of new source material, notes on sermons taken by auditors that will form part of the edition of previously unpublished material that is forthcoming from Oxford University Press …
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