Putting Sin to Death

John Owen · Lorenzo Scupoli · Isaac of Nineveh · John Cassian

Protestant · Catholic · Orthodox · Patristic West

Theme: Dealing with sin — the four-voice reader
Official publication: September 8, 2026
Kindle edition: on Amazon
Contents: 27 whole units from the four works — chapters, homilies, and books, never fragments

Four writers, four centuries, one question: how does the believer put sin to death, and live in repentance? Whole chapters from each tradition, side by side — with a guide to where they agree, where they honestly differ, and what each teaches for the day in front of you.

Kindle edition — on Amazon

Kindle edition sold by Amazon. The editorial apparatus — the four analyses, the comparison map, and the glossary — was generated with large language models under our editorial method; every quotation was verified against the source editions, and no page reached print until a human editor accepted it.

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About this edition

Whole chapters, homilies, and books from four Resurrection Publishing editions: Owen's Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers (Goold, 1862), Scupoli's The Spiritual Combat (1875), Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Homilies (Wensinck, 1923), and Cassian's The Institutes (Gibson, 1894). Each unit is printed complete — never fragments.

The editorial layer — the prefaces, the four analyses, the comparison map, and the glossary — was generated with large language models working under our editorial method, then verified quotation by quotation against the source editions. No page reached print until a human editor accepted it.

The four traditions do not secretly agree on everything, and the book does not pretend otherwise. Where they converge, it says so; where they differ, it sets the difference in each writer's own terms and leaves the weighing to you.

The four voices, whole

The complete editions behind the reader — for the writer whose voice you want all of:

Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers — John Owen
The Spiritual Combat — Lorenzo Scupoli
Mystic Treatises — Isaac of Nineveh
The Institutes of the Coenobia — John Cassian

The question these four share