John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God by John Piper

Excerpt

“The unhidden and unashamed aim in this book is to fan the
flame of your passion for the centrality and supremacy of God” (p. 12).

About the Book 

John Piper fires readers' passion for the centrality and
supremacy of God by unfolding Calvin's exemplary zeal for the glory of
God.

God rests all too lightly on the church's mind in our time.
Consequently, the self-saturation of his people has made God and his
glory auxiliary, and his majesty has all but disappeared from the modern
evangelical world.

John Calvin saw a similar thing in his day, and it was at the root of
his quarrel with Rome. Nothing mattered more to Calvin than the
centrality, supremacy, and majesty of the glory of God. His aim, he
wrote, was to "set before [man], as the prime motive of his existence, zeal to illustrate the glory of God"-a
fitting banner over all of the great Reformer's life and work. "The
essential meaning of Calvin's life and preaching," writes John Piper,
"is that he recovered and embodied a passion for the absolute reality
and majesty of God. Such is the aim and burden of this book as well."

As Piper concisely unfolds this predominant theme in Calvin's life,
he seeks to fire every Christian's passion for the centrality and
supremacy of God, so that God's self-identification in Exodus 3 as "I am
who I am" becomes the sun in our solar system too.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Gerald Bray


1. God Is Who He Is

2. A Passion for the Glory of God in Christ

3. Mastered by the Majesty and Word of God

4. Ministry Made by the Majesty of the Word

5. Marriage to Idelette

6. Constant Trials

7. Constancy in Expounding the Word of God


Appendix

Calvin’s Barbaric World: The Case of Michael Servetus

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Translations

English-UK

Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press

ISBN: 9781844743568

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Related Resources

• Brothers, Read Christian Biography (article)


• With Calvin in the Theater of God (book)


• With Calvin in the Theater of God (conference messages)


• The Divine Majesty of the Word (conference message)

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About John Piper

John Piper is Pastor for Preaching and
Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN. He grew up in
Greenville,
SC, and studied at Wheaton College, where he first sensed God's call to
enter the ministry. He went on to earn degrees from Fuller Theological
Seminary (B.D.) and the University of Munich (D.Theol.). For six years
he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, MN, and in
1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem. John is the
author of more than 40 books including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and twelve grandchildren.





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