The Call to Christian Perfection - Softcover

Chadwick, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 061584619X ISBN 13: 9780615846194

Publisher: Heritage of Truth, 2013

Synopsis

What is Christian Perfection? Why are so many professing Christians afraid of the doctrine? Why is the idea so vehemently resisted? These answers and more are found in Samuel Chadwick's “The Call to Christian Perfection”. “Christian Perfection,” says Chadwick, “is not infallibility.” And neither is it encompassed in the dissolution of our physical existence. Is moral perfection possible in this life? Chadwick's presentation to the affirmative is contained in these pages. Based on John Wesley's teachings on entire sanctification, “The Call to Christian Perfection” examines the Biblical basis of the doctrine. The reality of entire sanctification is only realized through crises in which the soul cries out to be conformed to the image of Christ, and the experience is as much a crises as conversion itself. Without holiness, says the Scriptures, “no man shall see the Lord.” This being so, it is vitally important that we rightly and Biblically define “holiness”. To the shame of the professing church, much of it is content in their “less than perfect” state, actually defending their spots and wrinkles, casting the blame for their worldly imperfection upon their domineering flesh, or even on God Himself. “It is a tragedy when 'holiness' people are not holy people.”

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About the Author

Samuel Chadwick (1860-1932) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister. After a major awakening and deepening of his faith in his late twenties via a personal epiphany after which he burned all his early sermons, he moved on to larger congregations and greater popularity. After a few years preaching in Edinburgh and at a new chapel in Glasgow he was ordained in 1890 and returned to England as Superintendent of the Leeds Mission. In 1904 Chadwick began lecturing weekly at Cliff College, a Methodist lay training centre, commuting from Leeds. In 1907, he was appointed to a faculty position as a biblical and theological tutor. Although he was doing mission work in the South Yorkshire Coalfield when the Principal of Cliff died in 1912, he immediately returned to the school and was formally appointed principal in 1913, remaining in that post for the rest of his career. Famed outdoor evangelist Leonard Ravenhill was educated at Cliff College during Chadwick's tenure. At Cliff, Chadwick wrote The Way to Pentecost, which went to print as he was dying in 1932. He also wrote The Call to Christian Perfection. Chadwick's works have been reprinted often since his death, and continue to be reprinted in new editions under various titles for modern study.

Edition details

• Publisher: Heritage of Truth
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 061584619X
• ISBN 13: 9780615846194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122
• Editor: Wallace J L