Featured Still Relevant today?

Yeah, well that sounds kind of like what happened with Harvard and the congregational churches started by the American puritans. Within less than a decade, much of what they had built had been eaten away by liberalism due to their children seeing their parent's theology as "not relevant."

Are the "complete works of John Owen" put out by banner of truth worth my wife locking me out of the house for a few weeks?

 

It's especially ignorant if the poster was someone who appeals to "older" theologians as opposed to the late coming reformers when trying to prove a different point like on the nature of the atonement for example.

By the way Gillinist, get yourself one of those electronic readers and you can get all the works of Owen for 5 dollars!

 

For going a "little" over budget.

 

maybe due to the truths that he and others were espousing in their works offending some holding to more modern theology now?

 

Guess we can now start throwing out the older and badder stuff, so out goes Calvin, Gill, Spurgeon, Berkhof, and in with NT Wright and the like!

 

Is old counsel any different than new counsel?... I take the meat and throw out the bones... No matter who I read or who I hear preach... That is not to say I do not learn new things on the way... Not to destroy but to enlighten and edify... I have a belief and not all those, who believe, believe like I do... The basic belief of all is Jesus Christ died for my sins... As the saying goes all roads lead to Rome, but accordingly, we all do not take the same road to get there... That is why there are Isms-and-schisms and splits and divisions... What is relevant to me may not be relevant to someone else and vise versa... Some brethren like to throw others under the bus because they don't believe like they do?... This old timer has been here along time and has seen it all... I leave the eternal saving to the Lord... And Gillinist, I'm going to save you 5 bucks and more... Here is the complete works of John Owens... Brethren you just got to know where to look!... Brother Glen

John Owen | Monergism

 

Start here;

 

This kind of statement is wrong on so many levels and tells us something about the mindset of such a poster doesn't it?
When any historical teacher whose work has stood the test of time was allowed to welcome a truth from scripture...it stands as scripture does expire.A truth then is a truth now.
I doubt anyone who claims to know and read any of these teachers who makes an outlandish comment that they are not relevant today.

 

Reading the OPs quote of Owens, we must admit that Owens is a product of his time in that he takes the long way around to get to the point. His point is generally solid gold, but his path is a drive through a winding mountain path rather than a smooth Kansas straight line.

 

Strictly speaking, his ideas are relevant. His writing is not easily readable to the common reader, therefore, he is not often read by many people. So, it depends on how you define relevant. From a cost benefit analysis, is the time it would take to read and reread Owens, just to understand what he is trying to say worth that extra time when I could go to Piper and read something similar which I will understand in a first reading? Which of the two is more relevant? Piper is more relevant because of the cost benefit analysis on my time.

 

Guess God set a defined time limit on how long the wisdom that He gifted certain men with can be applied then?

 

Do not agree with all he wrote, but can one be a serious student of theology and not have read Calvin at all, for example?

 

Its not just fellow calvinists, as have read the like of a Tozier and CS lewis, and still learned something from them also, but guess they are not useful any more either?

 

The theology is, of course, relevant for today. How could it possibly not be relevant? That would infer that Owens was teaching heresy, which he was not doing.