author
Stephen Charnock
1628–1680
A leading English Puritan preacher and theologian, he is remembered for clear, searching writing on the nature of God and the spiritual life. His work continued to shape Reformed Christian thought long after his death through widely read posthumous publications.
1 Audiobook
The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2
by Stephen Charnock
About the author
Born in London in 1628, Stephen Charnock studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and later at Oxford. He became an English Presbyterian clergyman during a turbulent period in British religious life, and he also served as chaplain to Henry Cromwell in Ireland.
After the Restoration, changing laws limited the public ministry of many nonconforming ministers, and Charnock spent years preaching and serving more quietly. In his later years he became co-pastor at Crosby Hall in London, where he ministered until his death on July 27, 1680.
Charnock is best known today for The Existence and Attributes of God, a major theological work published after his death. Readers have continued to value him for combining careful thought, pastoral seriousness, and a strong sense of the greatness and goodness of God.