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“…115 I have shown elsewhere that Owen and his contemporaries developed these principles from the second commandment. 116 Owen's treatment of the principles governing biblical worship was distinctively trinitarian. This is obvious on the surface from his two sermons on the Nature and Beauty of Public Worship, which argue for the principles stated above in connection to a passage that teaches communion with God as triune.…”

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TRINITARIAN DOXOLOGY: REASSESSING JOHN OWENâ€™S CONTRIBUTION TO REFORMED ORTHODOX TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY

McGraw

2015

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Reformed orthodox theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) referred to the doctrine of the Trinity as ‘the foundation of fundamentals’. Richard Muller notes that if any dogma comes close to achieving such status, it is the doctrine of the Trinity. It is thus surprising that most modern treatments of trinitarian theology assume that sixteenth and seventeenth century Reformed orthodoxy had virtually nothing to contribute to this vital doctrine. The recent Cambridge Companion to the Trinity and the Oxford Handbook of the Trinity both reflect this assumption. This article addresses how Reformed authors tried to harmonise the historical doctrine of the Trinity with their principle of sola scriptura. It does not treat positive developments or applications of the doctrine. The void left in the secondary literature has not adequately probed the bold claims of Voetius or the scholarly reflections of Muller. John Owen (1616-1683) is a growing exception to this trend. Both historians and theologians are starting to recognise his significance as a theologian in general and a trinitarian theologian in particular, but they often stop short of observing how he intertwined his trinitarian theology and piety throughout his writings. This article will reassess Owen’s contribution to Reformed trinitarian theology in two major segments. The first does so by critiquing two recent treatments of his work. The remaining material explores the theological foundations of Owen’s trinitarian doxology followed by the theological and practical conclusions that he drew from his theology in relation to Scripture, spiritual affections, covenant theology, and ecclesiology. Owen illustrates that one of the primary contributions of Reformed orthodoxy to trinitarian theology lies in its integration into Reformed soteriology and piety. This article reassesses Owen’s contribution to trinitarian theology and provides clues for scholars to trace the significance of the Reformed contribution to trinitarian theology in other authors within that tradition.

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confidence: 99%

TRINITARIAN DOXOLOGY: REASSESSING JOHN OWENâ€™S CONTRIBUTION TO REFORMED ORTHODOX TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY

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2015

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Methuen and Alexandra Walsham (eds), Religion and the household. Papers read at the  summer meeting and the  winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. (Studies in Church History, .) Pp. xxxii +  incl. frontispiece and  figs. Woodbridge: Boydell (for the Ecclesiastical History Society), . £.     ;   Haas, Reimund (ed.), Fiat voluntas tua. Theologe und Hisktoriker: Priester und Professor.

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