Collection: John Owen

John Owen is one of the most important Puritan theologians and thinkers of all time.

He was born in 1616 in Stadham (Oxfordshire, England), of Welsh ancestry. His father, Henry Owen, was a minister of the Anglican Church and belonged to the "Puritan" wing, or evangelical reformers.

Throughout his life, John Owen wrote many books, mainly on religion and reform. He was known as a reformer who constantly emphasized the changes that needed to be made within the church as a whole.

Owen died in 1683 at the age of 67.