Owen’s Two Catechisms

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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When political unrest drove John Owen to a small English village, he began ministering at the local church. Today, Stephen Nichols tells us about the two catechisms that Owen wrote to serve Christians of all ages in his congregation.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history.
0:07.0	John Owen wrote two catacisms in 1645 while he was minister at Fordham in Essex.
0:19.6	Owen was only three years ministering in Fordham but let's think about these years it was
0:26.0	the 1640s and it was the time of the English Civil War Parliament versus the King.
0:33.2	It was a time actually of houses divided,
0:36.7	a brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor.
0:40.3	And in 1642, John Owen was pitted against his employer.
0:46.0	Owen strongly supported Parliament, and he was at that time of the outbreak of the English Civil War employed as a private chaplain to Lord
0:56.2	Lovelas who supported the king.
0:59.1	So Owen ended up no longer employed as a private chaplain and made his way to Fordham.
1:05.4	Fordham was about 65 miles north and west of London,
1:09.8	right in the middle of Puritan country.
1:12.4	It's just a small village. The population today is
1:15.9	under a thousand people. It's charming and the church is charming. It dates back to
1:20.4	1087.
1:22.8	In 16, 18, a strange occurrence happened in that church.
1:25.7	The parishioners broke into the church and stole the pulpit
1:30.6	as a protest against the preaching of the then minister Robert Cotton.
1:35.0	Well, I'm sure there's a great story there, and maybe someday we will track it down.
1:39.0	But back to Owen.
1:41.0	Owen arrived there in 1643, and he got there he preached the Bible and then
1:46.0	he decided to write a catechism. In his dedicatory letter he addresses the catechism
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