Tag Archives: sanctification

R. Scott Clark: Recovering the Reformed Confession

Posted on July 24, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Clark, R. Scott.  Recovering the Reformed Confession. Dr Clark’s book can be focused around three themes: 1) a distinctively Reformed piety flows from a Reformed theology and this piety will be directly counter to the 2) Quest for Illegitimate Religious Certainty … Continue reading →

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Review: John Owen on the Christian Life (Ferguson)

Posted on June 25, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

This book is exactly what you would expect from an Owen scholar writing on John Owen.  It is clear and rarely goes off rabbit-trails.  While it is old in some ways, and not every locus of systematic theology gets treated, … Continue reading →

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Review: John Owen’s Trinitarian Spirituality (Kay)

Posted on June 20, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Kay, Brian.  Paternoster Press. How does one combine the gains of the so-called “Western” doctrine of God with the demands of spirituality and relating to the divine persons?  How do we avoid collapsing the unity into a pantheistic oneness (ala Meister … Continue reading →

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Outline, John Owen *Mortification of Sin*

Posted on June 17, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/SpiritualFormation/Texts/Owen_MortificationOfSin.pdf Foundation of the Discourse The relationship between justification and mortification is cause and effect (Owen 6). Our duty: The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all … Continue reading →

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You are what you love (review)

Posted on January 17, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

What we love and desire forms the space for what we know. And so James K. A. Smith reads Augustine’s key phrases in the Confessions. Smith writes: ““In some sense, love is a condition for knowledge” (Smith 7). I love … Continue reading →

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Outline Owen Mortification of Sin

Posted on December 22, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/SpiritualFormation/Texts/Owen_MortificationOfSin.pdf Foundation of the Discourse The relationship between justification and mortification is cause and effect (Owen 6). Our duty: The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all … Continue reading →

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Rallying to battle scars

Posted on May 6, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

Seven years ago I left the Reformed social networks (if never officially leaving the Reformed world).  I kind of got back into some of these networks four years ago (if only to see what was going on).  When I left … Continue reading →

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