This study retrieves Stephen Charnock’s (1628–1680) theology of divine holiness, as developed in his Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God. In a period when Reformed orthodox theology was giving renewed attention to the divine attributes, Charnock offered a distinctive and extended account of holiness. He described it not only as God’s moral purity, but also as the intrinsic integrity and beauty of the divine nature — the attribute that links together and glorifies all others. The study first situates Charnock within his historical and theological context, considering his doctrine of holiness in relation to two themes: God and evil, particularly divine concurrence with sin and the greater-good purposes; and divine simplicity, specifically the unity and diversity of the divine attributes. It then develops and retrieves Charnock’s theology for contemporary systematic theology, arguing that holiness understood as integrity informs a framework for a compatibilist response to the logical problem of evil and provides an ontological foundation for understanding God’s unity and diversity as coinhering.
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