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 of French protestant suspicion of the achievements of the Cromwellian church settlement, and Owen’s robust defence of the same. The letters illustrate Owen’s reputation was increasingly international, but that responses to his work – even from among the Reformed – could be highly critical. Quibell shows how Owen’s network extended through Huguenots in London and their communities in France, Holland, Vaud and Geneva – and that the Savoy Declaration was produced with this international audience in mind.
Crawford Gribben 