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Recasting the Heart in the Triune God

其他書名	John Owen and the Affections and Sanctification
出版	Westminster Seminary California, 2019
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8LcDyAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋John Owen (1616-83) is considered to be the theologian of the affections. Seventeenth-century England faced by a great tribulation due to antinomianism, Neonomianism (or moralism), and antitrinitarianism. Owen was sensitive to his circumstances. His writings were mainly polemical, yet he also wrote treatises on practical living in the Christian faith. The idea of affections arises from his theological tradition and from his argument against antinomianism, Neonomianism, and antitrinitarianism. For Owen, Christians are moved by divine communion with the triune God. The person and work of Jesus Christ brought forth the foundation of salvation, and Christ demonstrated the paradigm of Christian living. The Holy Spirit works upon the faculties of the soul. He moves the heart and affections of a person. He infuses a new habit of grace to obey the Word of God, to mortify sinful tendencies, and to live unto God with heartfelt trust in the Lord. The divine communion with each person of the Trinity and the affections is inseparable related. This thesis investigates the historical context of Owen, and it surveys what animated Owen to embrace the idea of the affections. On a macro-level, this thesis aims to present the role of the affections in relation to Owen's theology on sanctification. It examines his view of the affections in regard to divine communion, mortification, and vivification. On a micro-level, this thesis will argue that Owen's view of the affections protects him from the error of synergism. He did not teach a cooperative process between God and human beings in salvation. Instead, he believed that Christian who has faith in communion with the triune God is faithful with heartfelt trust and affections because Christ dispenses grace to Christians. This idea of the affection brought forth Christians to have active participation in divine communion and sanctification.