Communion with the Triune God

"Communion with the Triune God, by John Owen as edited by Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor, has become, along with The Apostle's Doctrine of the Atonement, by George Smeaton, the two most important books in my life." (quoted by Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds)

John Owen was perhaps the greatest of the Puritan theologians and this new edition of his classic study of Trinitarian spirituality will be a blessing to all who read it. Gods self-revelation as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is not a teaching to be checked off and shelved away for doctrinal safekeeping. It is rather the ultimate basis of prayer, ethics, worship, and Christian life itself. No one presents this truth more powerfully than the great Owen, and Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylors new edition of Communion with God gives us fresh access to his mind and heart.

Owens exceptional work is partly a biblical and dogmatic treatise, partly a searching reflection on the practice of fellowship with the triune God. This new edition deserves to claim many new readers for a classic of Protestant practical divinity.

John Owens Communion with God is the best thing there is on relational theology. In a nuanced and biblically rich way, Owen develops the believers responsive engagement with God the Holy Trinity through study, worship, and meditation. This is a remarkable book that will surprise and challenge. Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor have nicely rewrapped it, making it accessible to a new generation.

Union and communion with God the Holy Trinity lies at the heart of reformation theology. John Owen was one of the greatest expositors of this, and a new edition of his classic work on the subject, updated for modern readers, is long overdue. This is exactly the kind of teaching we need to revitalize the church in our generation. As Owens experience of the living God becomes ours we shall be set on fire with longing to know God more deeply and serve him more faithfully in a world which needs him as much now as it did in Owens day.

John Owens treatise is remarkable in many ways. It is one of the finest examples of Owens massive output. It is a landmark in Western Trinitarian thought, uniquely wedding profound theology to Christian piety. It vividly thrusts before us the Holy Trinity as the one object of our worship. Kapic and Taylor have removed many of the difficulties of seventeenth-century writing in this edition, making accessible an old classic to a new audience. This book could revolutionize your thoughts of God, your worship of him, and how you live in todays world.

"A great work. There is renewed interest in the Trinity these days, and there is also a deep hungering for genuine spirituality. Owen combines the two in a powerful manner, pointing the way to a vital relationship with the triune God."

"For those who want to deepen their understanding of God's greatness and how we walk with him, this book will repay, many times over, the effort its reading requires."

"Among English-speaking theologians and pastors, John Owen and Jonathan Edwards run neck and neck for the first place in profound, faithful, fruitful displays of the glory of God in the salvation of sinners. Not only that, they are both running for first among the ranks of those who show practically how that glory is experienced here and now. Owen may have the edge here. And Communion with the Triune God is his most extraordinary effort. No one else has laid open the paths of personal fellowship with the three persons of the Trinity the way Owen does. What an honor it would be to God if more of his children knew how to enjoy him the way Owen does."

Here is a modern reader's edition of a classic Puritan work by a classic Puritan author. It is a powerful Trinitarian profiling from Scripture of the truth that fellowship with God is and must ever be the inside story of the real Christian's life. John Owen is a profound teacher on all aspects of spiritual life, and it is a joy to welcome this reappearance of one of his finest achievements.'