A Soul Framed in Christ: Stephen Charnock on the Renewal of God's Image - Hardcover

by Frank L. Bartoe (Author), Joel R. Beeke (Foreword by)

There is a particular pressing question that seems to permeate the whole of Charnock's works: "If the greatest or highest degree of excellence is found in this imitable perfection of God, this conformity to holiness, then what does this conformity look like in the soul that has been regenerated?" This book undertakes a detailed analysis of the various components of Charnock's doctrine of regeneration, more specifically, the continuity in his thought working out the reality that is contained within the highest degree of excellence that is found in the imitable perfection of God. Charnock brings the whole of that image of God renewed in the soul under the microscope of Scripture to reveal the details found in the conformity to that vital principle, holiness.

Author Biography

Frank L. Bartoe IV is an ordained Reformed Presbyterian minister. He is the author of Approaching a Heavenly Reality in a Temporal Realm: Robert Bruce's Theology of the Sacrament (2019).