The Claims of Truth: John Owen’s Trinitarian Theology

by Carl R. Trueman

Publisher:

Reformation Heritage

, 2021

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Presents an analysis of John Owen's Puritan Theology
• Focuses on Owen's vigorous trinitarianism
• Debunks many of the myths surrounding Reformed Scholasticism

Contents

• Owen in Context
• The Principles of Theology
• The Doctrine of God
• The Person and Work of Christ
• The Nature of Satisfaction
• The Man Who Wasn’t There

Praise for The Claims of Truth

Drawing on recent scholarship from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the author brings attention to the important continuity that exists between the theology of John Owen and Reformation thought on the one hand and the continuity between theological method and that of the Church Fathers and Medieval doctors on the other hand . . . sound historical methodology and . . . a successful attempt to debunk many of the myths surrounding Reformed Scholasticism.

Willem J. Asselt, University of Utrecht

Product Details

• Title: The Claims of Truth: John Owen’s Trinitarian Theology
• Author: Carl R. Trueman
• Series: Reformed historical-theological studies
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Trinity › History of doctrines; Religion › Christian Theology--Systematic; Religion › Christian Theology--Christology
• ISBNs: 9781601788818, 9780853647980, 1601788819, 0853647984
• Resource ID: LLS:CLMSTRTHTRNTRTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-17T20:33:58Z

About Carl R. Trueman

Carl R. Trueman is pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Ambler, Pennsylvania. He has received degrees from St. Catharine’s College in Cambridge and the University of Aberdeen. Trueman is also professor of historical theology and church history and Paul Wooley Chair of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary. He has authored several books and was editor of Themelios from 1998–2007.