Seminar presentations at the John Owen Academic Conference (Mon 24—Tues 25 June 2024)
We are delighted to announce the following wide range of papers scheduled to be presented at the new directions in John Owen studies conference.
Owen and the cultures of dissent
“Looking for Sir John Hartopp: patron, patriot and ‘pillar of dissent’”
Dr Lesley A. Rowe (Independent historian, lecturer, and author)
“‘I Answer in the Words of Dr. Owen’: Nehemiah Coxe’s Use of Owen in 'Vindiciae Veritatis' (1677),”
Jared Mays (PhD student, Queen's University Belfast)
Owen, scholasticism, and the covenant of redemption
“John Owen’s ‘Theo-Christo-Pneumatology’: anti-Scotist or anti-scholastic?”
Rev Dr Sam Bostock (Union Theological College, Belfast)
“The Pactum Salutis as a Communication of Divine Goodness”
Rev Dr R. Jason Pickard (Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Westminster Seminary CA)
Owen and Catholicism
“Medieval Parallels to Owen’s Trinitarian Theology”
Rev Dr Ryan M. McGraw (Professor of Systematic Theology, Greenville Presbyterian Theological)
“Owen, Cane, and the Transatlantic History of Anti-Catholic Books”
Dr Zachary McCulley (Visiting Assistant Professor of History, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA)
Owen, the Song of Solomon, and human flourishing
“‘I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine’: John Owen on Union with Christ in the Song of Songs”
Rev Richard Patton (PhD student, Union Theological College)
“John Owen’s exegesis of the Song of Songs in Communion with God in its seventeenth-century context”
Nathan W Parsons (The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
“Cultivating Happiness and Virtue through Spiritual Affections: Exploring Human Flourishing in John Owen's Theology”
Sam Hyeong Rae Jo (PhD Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Independent Scholar)
Owen, Scripture, and the freedom of the will
“The Hebrew Text and the Septuagint: John Owen in the Reformed Tradition”
Levi Berntson (Assistant Professor of Theology, Reformation Bible College, Sanford FL)
“John Owen on the Freedom of the Will”
Dr Benedict Bird (Westminster Seminary, Newcastle,)
Reception of John Owen
“The Puritan and the Prelate: John Owen, Thomas Barlow and the Conformist Reception of Dissenting Literature”
Dr Adam Quibell (PhD Queen’s University Belfast)
“Contemporary reception of John Owen in Latin America: The formation of a new theological tradition”
Daniel Caballero Vichez (PhD Student Queen's University Belfast)
“The nature, rise, and progress of the Covenant of Grace: Petrus van Mastricht’s use of Owen’s Θεολογουμενα παντοδαπα in the 'Theologia-Practica Theoretica'”
Dr T. M. Rester (Associate Professor of Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary PA)
Owen and the atonement
“What is the significance of Owen’s change of mind on the necessity of Christ’s satisfaction?”
Tim Laurence (University of St Andrews)
“Sacrifice in Hebrews - John Owen's commentary of Hebr 9 and 10 in the light of newer research”
Prof Dr Hans Burger (Professor of systematic theology, Theological University Utrecht)
Owen and the beatific vision
“For Though We See in Part: John Owen's pastoral apprehension of blessedness in the Beatific Vision”
Wesley Lassiter (Lead Pastor of The Rock Church and student of Union Theological College and the BibleMesh Institute)
“John Owen, the Trinity, and the Beatific Vision”
David Driver (Lead Pastor of Forest City Bible Church London ON)
“The Thomistic Vision of Owen: A Remedy for Contemporary Revisions of John Owen’s Account of the Beatific Vision”
Josh Tinkham (PhD student at Southern Evangelical Seminary)
Owen and the covenants
“Reconsidering Owen’s Early Pastorate: Discovering New Covenant Theology”
Dr Ryan Shelton (PhD Queen’s University Belfast)
“An inconsistent Congregationalist? Examining the Connection Between the Covenant theology, Congregational ecclesiology, and Paedobaptism of John Owen”
Mike Anderson (Preaching Pastor, Citylight Church Center City, Philadelphia PA)
The keynote speakers at the plenary sessions are:
Owen and Judaism
Prof Philip Alexander FBA (Emeritus professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester)
"Pastoral and Literary Caregiving: Richard Baxter, 'Puritan Man of Letters'"
Dr Alison Searle (Associate Professor of Textual Studies at the University of Leeds)
"All Things Summed up in Christ”: Karl Barth and John Owen on Christocentrism"
Dr Ty Kieser (Assistant Professor of Theology, Criswell College)
Details of how to register for the academic conference may be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/academic-conference-new-directions-in-john-owen-studies-tickets-825278418967?aff=oddtdtcreator
All delegates who register before 1 June 2024 will receive a number of free resources including one volume of the new Crossway edition of Owen as well as digital access to some others.