A critical work into the working and theology of the most mysterious person of the holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit. Many times Christians recognize but do not focus on the Holy Spirit even though He is the most active person of the Godhood in our world today. This work goes to correct that and delves into Scripture to reveal to us how he works and what he is like so that we can properly revere him as Almighty God. This first volume contains Owen's first five books. Now in larger print!

'John Owen on the Work of the Holy Spirit', as the work has generally been called, is perhaps one of the best known, and most highly esteemed of Owen's treatises. 'We are favoured with many excellent books in our tongue', wrote John Newton to a correspondent, 'but I with you agree in assigning one of the first places as a teacher to Dr Owen. I have just finished his discourse on the Holy Spirit which is an epitome, if not the masterpiece of his writings.'

'Owen on the Holy Spirit', as this work has been known to generations of Christians, was written by the greatest theologian of the Puritan era. It is, without question, one of the truly great Christian books. Originally published in 1674 as Pneumatologia, or A Discourse concerning the Holy Spirit, it is a massive work, taking up 650 pages in the Banner of Truth edition of Owen's Works (Volume 3). It deals with the name, nature, personality and operations of the Spirit, and urges the necessity of gospel holiness as distinct from mere human morality. The work is both doctrinal and pastoral in character. The very length and exhaustiveness of the original book could easily deter us from attempting to read it, but this abridged and modernized version prepared, like the earlier volumes in the series, (Apostasy from the Gospel, Communion with God and The Glory of Christ), by Dr. R. J. K. Law will make Owen's teaching more accessible to modern readers.

This volume by the greatest of the Puritan theologians contains the following books and chapters: Book I. Chapter I. General Principles Concerning the Holy Spirit and His Work Chapter II. The Name and Titles of the Holy Spirit Chapter III. Divine Nature and Personality of the Holy Spirit Proved and Vindicated Chapter IV. Peculiar Works of the Holy Spirit in the First or Old Creation Chapter V. Way and Manner of the Divine Dispensation of the Holy Spirit Book II. Chapter I. Peculiar Operations of the Holy Spirit Under the Old Testament Preparatory for the New Chapter II. General Dispensation of the Holy Spirit With Respect Unto the New Creation Chapter III. Work of the Holy Spirit With Respect Unto the Head of the New Creation - The Human Nature of Christ Chapter IV. Work of the Holy Spirit in and on the Human Nature of Christ Chapter V. The General Work of the Holy Spirit in the New Creation With Respect Unto the Members of That Body Whereof Christ Is the Head Book III. Chapter I. Work of the Holy Spirit in the New Creation by Regeneration Chapter II. Works of the Holy Spirit Preparatory Unto Regeneration Chapter III. Corruption or Depravation of the Mind by Sin Chapter IV. Life and Death, Natural and Spiritual, Compared Chapter V. The Nature, Causes, and Means of Regeneration Chapter VI. The Manner of Conversion Explained in the Instance of Augustine Book IV. Chapter I. The Nature of Sanctification and Gospel Holiness Explained Chapter II. Sanctification a Progressive Work Chapter III. Believers the Only Object of Sanctification, and Subject of Gospel Holiness Chapter IV. The Defilement of Sin, Wherein It Consists, With Its Purification Chapter V. The Filth of Sin Purged by the Spirit and the Blood of Christ Chapter VI. The Positive Work of the Spirit in the Sanctification of Believers Chapter VII. Of the Acts and Duties of Holiness Chapter VIII. Mortification of Sin, the Nature and Causes of It Book V. Chapter I. Necessity of Holiness From the Consideration of the Nature of God Chapter II. Eternal Election a Cause of and Motive Unto Holiness Chapter III. Holiness Necessary From the Commands of God Chapter IV. Necessity of Holiness From God’S Sending Jesus Christ Chapter V. Necessity of Holiness From Our Condition in This World

The Holy Spirit has become an object of greater attention in Trinitarian theology, and indeed in the broader life of the Church, since the rise of Pentecostalism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Different understandings of the Holy Spirit have had different impacts on worship; here, Elizabeth Welch examines four surprising overlaps in the thought of two radically different traditions of the church about the relationship between the Holy Spirit and worship. These traditions are represented by John Owen, from seventeenth-century England, and John Zizioulas, from contemporary Greece. Welch explores in turn the common themes of the personal and relational nature of the triune God, the immediacy of the encounter with God through the Holy Spirit in worship, the role of the Holy Spirit in leading people into truth, and the transformative nature of worship that draws people into sharing God's purpose for the world. In each, the insights of Owen and Zizioulas shed new light on the ongoing debate in the Church today.