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John Owen was a leading theologian in 17th-century England. Through his association with Oliver Cromwell in particular, he exercised considerable influence on central government, and became the premier religious statesman of the Interregnum.
Sommario
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1: Apprentice puritan
- 2: Emerging theologian
- 3: Frustrated pastor
- 4: Army preacher
- 5: Oxford reformer
- 6: Cromwellian courtier
- 7: Defeated revolutionary
- 8: Restoration politique
- 9: Nonconformist divine
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Info autore
Crawford Gribben has held positions in early modern studies at the University of Manchester, Trinity College Dublin, and Queen's University Belfast, where he is currently professor of early modern British history. He is the author of several books on the print cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism.
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John Owen was a leading theologian in 17th-century England. Through his association with Oliver Cromwell in particular, he exercised considerable influence on central government, and became the premier religious statesman of the Interregnum.
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Crawford Gribben has here produced the most persuasive account ever of a multi-faceted career that ended in deep personal sadness and public failure. Owen was a profound Calvinist thinker who outlived the welcome of most of the millions of words he published, but he was as much a Lord General in the war of ideas as Oliver Cromwell was the Lord General of the clash of swords.
