Mercury: or the Secret and Swift Messenger

Mercury: or the Secret and Swift Messenger
Author: John Wilkins
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902728010X

Works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins' (1708). Together with an abstract of Dr. Wilkin's 'Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Languages,' a sketch of the life of the author and an account of his writings. With an introductory essay on the Universal Language Movement in England, France and Germany in the 17th and 18th century by Brigitte Asbach-Schnitker.

John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse

John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse
Author: Martyn Calvin Cowan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1351615564

John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum. Using Owen’s sermons from this period as a window into the mind of a self-proclaimed prophet, this book studies how his apocalyptic interpretation of contemporary events led to him making public calls for radical political and cultural change. Owen believed he was ministering at a unique moment in history, and so the historical context in which he writes must be equally considered alongside the theological lineage that he draws upon. Combining these elements, this book allows for a more nuanced interpretation of Owen’s ministry that encompasses his lofty spiritual thought as well as his passionate concerns with more corporeal events. This book represents part of a new historical turn in Owen Studies and will be of significant interest to scholars of theological history as well as Early Modern historians.