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Originally Posted by FenderPriest  Anyhow, do you guys have any thoughts or reflections on this book? Also, has anybody read any rebuttals to this book? |
The best rebuttal I've found is a Masters thesis by Neil Chambers (done through RTS Jackson). Can't remember the exact title.
Personally, I have a love hate relationship with this book. Love, in that there are some parts of his argument that are sublime. Hate, in that Owen IMHO imposes a prior grid over certain passages that question his position (for example, that "world: in John 3:16 = "elect" is horrible exegesis, especially considering the use of "world" in the next verse!).
We also see Owen's voluntarism (God could've saved people without the cross if he wished--yuk!) evident here. It was a few years later he'd changed his opinion on this as we see in
A Dissertation on Divine Justice. DoD was written when he was a young man.