Sobre la Tentaci?n (John Owen)

Sobre la Tentación 

Spanish edition of On Temptation by John Owen

Lo que cada creyente deberia saber sobre la tentación

Una guía práctica para reconocer cuando la tentación viene hacia nosotros, y para saber cómo resistir su poder y sus propósitos. La superficialidad y carnalidad de la iglesia hoy en día es debida a la visión superficial hacia el pecado. Los puritanos vieron a Dios en toda Su santidad, majestad, autoridad, soberanía y poder, y así se dieron cuenta de la vileza, engaño y culpabilidad del corazón humano. Pero el vivir santo no es una reliquia de los días de los puritanos, sino es algo esencial para todos los cristianos verdaderos de cada siglo.

Contenido

• La advertencia del Salvador en contra de la tentación
• La tentación ¡manéjela con cuidado!
• ¿Por qué debemos tomar tan en serio la tentación?
• Entrando en la tentación – Los síntomas
• ¿Cómo podemos guardamos libres de la tentación?
• ¿Para qué estamos velando?
• ¿Cómo podemos guardar nuestros corazones en contra de la tentación?
• ¿Qué sucede si usted no vela y ora?

About John Owen

John Owen (1616-1683) lived 67 years of a life full of spiritual experience, literary accomplishment, and national influence so beyond most of his peers that he continues to merit the accolade of ‘the greatest British theologian of all time.’

No outline of Owen’s life can give an adequate impression of the stature and importance to which he attained in his own day. He was summoned to preach before Parliament on several occasions, most notably on the day after the execution of Charles I. During the Civil War, Owen’s merit was recognized by General Fairfax, then by Cromwell who took him as a Chaplain to Ireland and Scotland. He was adviser to Cromwell, especially though not exclusively on ecclesiastical affairs, but fell from the Protector’s favor after opposing the move to make him King. In 1658 he was one of the most influential members of the Savoy Conference of ministers of Independent persuasion. After the Ejection he enjoyed some influence with Charles II who occasionally gave him money to distribute to impoverished ejected ministers. All in all, he was, with Richard Baxter, the most eminent Dissenter of his time.

His writings

In our Spanish section, we have numerous titles by Owen including La Mortificacion del Pecado.  Despite his other achievements, Owen is most famed for his writings. These cover the range of doctrinal, ecclesiastical and practical subjects. They are characterized by profundity, thoroughness and, consequently, authority. Andrew Thomson said that Owen ‘makes you feel when he has reached the end of his subject, that he has also exhausted it.’ Although many of his works were called forth by the particular needs of his own day they all have a uniform quality of timelessness.