Martyn C. Cowan

Cowan was educated at Friends' School Lisburn{{Citation needed|date=July 2025}} and went on to study philosophy at undergraduate and postgraduate level at Queen’s University Belfast. He was a student on the Cornhill Training Course and trained for ordination at Oak Hill Theological College (MTh Distinction), and Union Theological College (PG Cert Min). He subsequently completed doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge with a dissertation entitled ’The prophetic preaching of John Owen from 1646 to 1659 in its historical context'.{{Cite book|title=The prophetic preaching of John Owen from 1646 to 1659 in its historical context|last=Cowan|first=Martyn Cowan|publisher=Unpublished PhD dissertation|year=2013|location=University of Cambridge}}

He served as Assistant Minister in First Presbyterian Church, Saintfield, and Assistant to the Vacancy Convener in First Presbyterian Church, Portadown.{{Cite web|url=http://lisburn.com/archives/churches/church-news-2006/martyn-cowan.htm|title=Service of Licensing for Martyn Cowan at Railway Street Presbyterian Church}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstportadown.org/photos-afternoon-tea-presentation-dr-martyn-cowan-kathy-held-sunday-11th-december-2016/|title=Presentation to Martyn and Kathy Cowan 11 December 2016|date=12 December 2016 }} He was appointed Lecturer in Historical Theology at Union College in June{{Citation needed|date=July 2025}} 2016 and ordained in December{{Citation needed|date=July 2025}} 2016.{{cite web |title=New Faculty Members for Union |url=http://www.union.ac.uk/About-Union/News/New-Faculty-Members-for-Union.aspx |website=Union Theological College |access-date=8 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613234216/http://www.union.ac.uk/About-Union/News/New-Faculty-Members-for-Union.aspx |archive-date=13 June 2018 |date=1 September 2016 |url-status=dead}}

In 2018{{cite web |title=Royal Historical Society Report of Council Session 2017 – 2018 |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/17205325/Report-of-Council-2017-18.pdf |website=Royal Historical Society |access-date=9 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130101301/https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/17205325/Report-of-Council-2017-18.pdf |archive-date=30 November 2024 |date=2018}} he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Cowan's work on the preaching of John Owen is part of a new scholarly turn in Owen studies.{{Cite journal|last=Gribben|first=Crawford|date=2018|title=Review of Cowan's John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse|url=https://www.northernrenaissance.org/martyn-calvin-cowan-john-owen-and-the-civil-war-apocalypse-preaching-prophecy-and-politics-routledge-2018-ryan-m-mcgraw-john-owen-trajectories-in-reformed-orthodox-theology-palgrave-20/|journal=Journal of the Northern Renaissance}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Martyn-Cowan/e/B06XVLQ452|title=Martyn Cowan's Amazon Author Page|website=Amazon UK }}{{Cite journal|last=Hyde|first=Daniel|date=January 2017|title=John Owen: Prayer as Politics By Other Means|url=https://davenantinstitute.org/prayer-as-politics/|journal=Ad Fontes|volume=5}}

• Sermons and Tracts from the Civil Wars (1646–1649), The Complete Works of John Owen Vol. 18 (Crossway, 2025). {{ISBN|9781433560477}}.
• 'Owen the Preacher', in The T&T Clark Handbook of John Owen, ed. Crawford Gribben and John Tweeddale (T&T Clark, 2023), 118–45.
• John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse: Preaching, Prophecy and Politics (Routledge, 2017). {{ISBN|9781138087767}}.
• Portrait of a Prophet: Lessons from the Preaching of John Owen (1616–1683) (St Antholin Charity Lectureship, Latimer Trust, 2016) {{ISBN|9781906327415}}
• ‘Introduction to the Old Testament Historical Books’ in NIV Proclamation Bible: Correctly Handling the Word of Truth (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013). {{ISBN|9780310437956}}
• ‘New World, New Temple, New Worship: The Book of Revelation in the Theology and Practice of Christian Worship’, published in three parts: Churchman 119.4 (Winter 2005), 297–312; [http://archive.churchsociety.org/churchman/documents/Cman_120_2_Cowan.pdf Churchman 120.2] (Summer 2006), 159–176; [http://churchsociety.org/docs/churchman/120/Cman_120_3_Cowan.pdf Churchman 120.3] (Autumn 2006), 247–265.

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• [https://www.union.ac.uk/staff/rev-dr-martyn-c-cowan Faculty Profile]
• [https://www.routledge.com/authors/i16400-martyn-cowan Routledge Featured Author Page]

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