I'm reading through The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, wherein John Owen argues for particular redemption. Nothing is more controversial, in what is widely considered as a distinct feature of Calvinism, than this idea (more popularly known as Limited Atonement).
I'm finding that some parts are easy to follow and track with him. Other portions of the text leave me wondering "where is he going with this?" As I talked with a literature expert, Jon Lamb (who just received his doctoral degree from UT), it is fairly typical of writers of this era to be exhaustive in every minor point to assure their readers they are giving the subject matter a thorough treatment. In this ADD age, we are used to sound bites and twitter feeds to give us the bottom line in a matter of seconds. I am being challenged to let the case develop methodically.
Having said all of that, I'm only up to chapter 5 of the first "book" in the book. I don't know whether he published this as an anthology or what (hence the books within the book). Still, that's kind of sad. I read maybe a few pages here and there, but the Kindle shows I'm only like 7% of the way through the book. Way to go Greg! :-(
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