John Owen on the person of Christ
One person in two natures, unconfused and undivided
Jesus Christ is God and man in one, — not a God and a man; God incarnate, — not a man deified. The essential properties of either nature remain in his person theirs still, not communicated unto the other; as of the Deity to be eternal, everywhere; of the humanity to be born and die.
THE POSITION
Chalcedonian, and Owen states the guardrails explicitly: God and man in one person, not a God and a man; God incarnate, not a man deified; the properties of each nature remaining that nature's own and not communicated to the other; and whatever may be said of either nature said of the whole person.
14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
12 OTHERS HOLD THIS
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
The most formidable English Puritan theologian: Dean of Christ Church and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford under Cromwell, later a nonconformist pastor in London. This entry rests on The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (1647), The Doctrine of Justification by Faith (1677), Pneumatologia and the Discourse of Spiritual Gifts (1674), and the Two Short Catechisms (1645), read in the Goold edition of the Works.
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"John Owen on the person of Christ", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/owen/christology (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/owen/christology).