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** John Owen (Stadhampton (Oxfordshire), 1616 - Ealing, 24 August 1684) was an important Puritan-oriented theologian.
Owen was born in 1616 in Stadham, the place now called Stadhampton. Owen's father - Henry Owen - was a minister in the Anglican Church there. As a child, Owen was already exceptionally gifted. At a very young age he wrote and mastered the Greek language. He attended Queens College, Oxford, where he received his Master of Arts in 1635. In 1637 he left the university because of conscientious objection to the decrees of Bishop Laud, who was also head of the university.
In the summer of 1643 Owen became a minister at Fordham in Essex. Shortly after becoming a minister in Fordham, he married Mary Rooke. She bore him eleven children, of which only one daughter grew to adulthood. In Fordham he published a small and a large catechism. In his first congregation he was a Presbyterian. He served his second congregation in Coggeshall. Here he described his changing view of the structure and structure of the Church. He was, among other things, a minister in Oliver Cromwell's army. He was highly regarded by the Protector, until a removal arose after Cromwell sought to have himself proclaimed king at the end of his life. Owen supported the army commanders, who have vigorously opposed this. As a theologian he was an armored opponent of Catholicism and Arminianism, among others.
In 1651 he became dean of the important Christ Church in Oxford and in 1652 he became vice-chancellor of this university. In 1660 he settles in his birthplace Stadham. After 1660 he led the ecclesiastical movement of the Independents, the movement outside the Anglican Church. After suffering from many illnesses, he died in 1684. 67354429
