Thursday, December 9, 2010

PNEUMATOLOGIA

That's the title of a comprehensive work on the Holy Spirit produced by John Owen in 1674. I'm beginning to poke away at it, and it looks to be exhilarating material. No one, to my knowledge, has ever produced such a fulsome treatment of the Spirit. It is two volumes in the Gould edition (vols. 3 and 4) and totals about 1200 pages. No doubt I'll be posting here and there as light breaks into my study morning by morning. Reading Owen for me is almost always illuminating. Grand and solid truths pour forth with such force and clarity.

Pneumatologia is the title. The fuller title with subtitle is this: A Discourse concerning the Holy Spirit. An Account is Given of his Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations, and Effects; His Whole Work in the Old and New Creation is Explained; the Doctrine concerning it Vindicated from Opposition and Reproaches. The Nature also and Necessity of Gospel Holiness; the Difference between Grace and Morality, or a Spiritual Life unto God in Evangelical Obedience and a Course of Moral Virtues, are Stated and Declared.

No comments:

Post a Comment