: John Owen
: Kelly M. Kapic, Justin Taylor
: Communion with the Triune God (Foreword by Kevin J. Vanhoozer)
: Crossway
: 9781433519628
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: English
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Does it make a difference that the God Christians claim to worship has revealed himself as triune-the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? Does this fundamental truth of biblical authority have an effect on a believer's personal fellowship with God? Puritan theologian John Owen recognized the great need for every believer to understand the triune God. Communion with the Triune God revisits the truth presented by John Owen and challenges all believers to truly recognize and appreciate the ministry that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have in their lives. This work of John Owen encourages Christians to enjoy true communion with each person of the triune God.

John Owen (1616-1683) was vice-chancellor of Oxford University and served as adviser and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. Among the most learned and active of the Puritans in seventeenth-century England, he was accomplished both in doctrine and practical theology.

OUTLINE

Part 1: Of Communion with the Father

(Chapter 1)

I. The saints have communion with God (90)

II. Communion in general (92)

III. Communion with God defined (94)

(Chapter 2)

I. The manner of communion with God (95)

A. Distinct communion with each person of the Trinity (95)

1. Communion with the Father (98)

2. Communion with the Son (99)

3. Communion with the Holy Spirit (101)

B. Distinct communication from each person of the Trinity (101)

1. Where we see the distinctions (102)

a. When the same thing is, at the same time, ascribed jointly and yet distinctly to all the persons in the Deity, and respectively to each of them (102)

b. When the same thing is attributed severally and singly unto each person (102)

2. Unique communications within the Trinity (102)

a. Unique communications of the Father (102)

b. Unique communications of the Son (103)

c. Unique communications of the Spirit (103)

3. Where the distinctions lie (104)

a. The Father communicates grace by original authority (104)

b. The Son communicates grace by a purchased treasury (104)

c. The Spirit communicates grace by immediate efficacy (104)

(Chapter 3)

C. Clarifying observations (105)

1. Assigning particular things to a person does not exclude the other persons from the same thing (105)

2. There is a concurrence of the whole Deity in the distinct actions of each person (106)

3. This assigning of particular things to particular persons is not intended to exclude other mediums of communion (106)

4. This distinct communion is not intended to encompass all there is to say about communion with God or to downplay communion with the whole Deity (106)

II. The matter of communion with God (107)

A. Communion with the Father consists in love (107)

1. God is love (107)

2. Love is particularly assigned to the Father (108)

3. Jesus prays to the Father for us, for the Father loves us (108)

4. The Holy Spirit sheds abroad in our hearts the love of God (109)

5. Twofold divine love of the Father (110)

a. John 3:16 (110)

b. John 14:23 (110)

6. The love of the Father is the fountain of all gracious dispensations (110)

B. The requirements of believers to complete communion with the Father in love (111)

1. Believers must receive the love of the Father (111)

2. Believers must return love to God (113)

a. Wherein God’s love unto us and our love to him agree (114)

1) They are each a love of rest and complacency (114)

a) The love of God (114)

b) The return of love to God (116)