Sermons and Tracts from the Civil Wars (Volume 18)

John Owen (1616–1683) was vice-chancellor of Oxford University and served as advisor 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. Martyn C. Cowan (PhD, University of Cambridge) is the vice principal and lecturer in historical theology at Union Theological College in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He serves as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy. Martyn is the author of Portrait of a Prophet: Lessons from the Preaching of John Owen. Lee Gatiss (PhD, University of Cambridge) is the director of Church Society and a lecturer in church history at Union School of Theology. He is chairman of The Global Anglican and on the editorial board of Studies in Puritanism and Piety. He has written and edited more than thirty books on the Bible, theology, and church history. He and his family serve at Christ Church, Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Shawn D. Wright (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as professor of church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and as pastor of leadership development at Clifton Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He has published or edited books on ecclesiology, Calvinism, and the life and theology of Theodore Beza. He is married to Gretchen, and they are the parents of five sons.