Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about matters, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

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John Owen

John Owen (1616–1683) war ein englischer puritanischer Theologe, Prediger und Vizekanzler der Universität Oxford. Er profilierte sich durch einflussreiche Schriften zur reformierten Sühnelehre und praktischen Heiligung, während seine Unterstützung der Parlamentspartei und die Rolle als Berater Oliver Cromwells historisch umstritten blieben. Heutigen Bibellesern vermittelt sein Werk eine streng dogmatische Schriftauslegung und eine tiefgründige theologische Beschäftigung mit dem geistlichen Kampf gegen die Sünde.

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