The Works of John Owen, Volume 2: Communion With God Geneva Series Commentaries the Larger Catechism

the Larger Catechism

To this volume

read him while still a ‘teenager’ and recorded in later life

in times of great darkness

his Analysis of Calvin’s Institutes and his examination questions thereupon

The Works of John Owen, Volume 2: Communion With God Geneva Series Commentaries the Larger CatechismThis magnificent volume is remarkable not merely for its precise and thoughtful orthodoxy, but mostly for its profound and sweet spirit of devotion. The bulk of the volume is taken up with Owens treatment of communion with God, first published in 1657. He shows that Christians do not relate to God generically and impersonally, but can and should possess a deep and distinctive communion with the three Persons of the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and