"An analysis of the theology of John Owen which pays particular attention to his use of traditional trinitarian insights in order to stand against heterodox theologies of the seventeenth century"--"Carl Trueman analyses the theology of the great Puritan theologian, John Owen, paying particular attention to his vigorous trinitarianism. To understand Owen, we need to see him as a seventeenth-century representative of the Western trinitarian and anti-Pelagian tradition. Trueman demonstrates how Owen used the theological insights of patristic, medieval, and Reformation theologians to meet the challenges posed to Reformed Orthodoxy by his contemporaries. A picture emerges of a theologian whose thought represented a critical reappropriation of aspects of the Western tradition for the purpose of developing a systematic restatement of Reformed theology capable of withstanding the assaults of both the subtly heterodox and the openly heretical.Table of Contents: 1. Owen in Context2. The Principles of Theology3. The Doctrine of God4.

The Person and Work of Christ5. The Nature of Satisfaction6. The Man Who Wasnt ThereAppendix One: The Role of Aristotelian Teleology in Owens Doctrine of AtonementAppendix Two: Owen, Baxter, and the Threefold Office"--.