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An Introduction to John Owen: A Christian Vision for Every Stage of Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

More than three centuries after his death, Puritan theologian John Owen continues to have an impact on readers. In his eight million published words, he addressed a wide range of topics, from theological and biblical commentary to social and political issues. In this survey of Owen’s life and work, Crawford Gribben captures the vision of the Christian life that Owen himself lived out—and hoped...

“fruitless professors often walk hand in hand” with the godly in the “performance of duties, and … the enjoyment of outward privileges.” But “now come to their secret retirements, and what a difference is there! There saints hold communion with God: hypocrites, for the most part, with the world and their own lusts.”10 Any child could be catechized, and any academic could make sacrificial decisions for the sake of principle, he realized, but only saints could grow in grace: “That knowledge of God
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