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    John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God (Foreword by Gerald L. Bray)
    John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God (Foreword by Gerald L. Bray)
    John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God (Foreword by Gerald L. Bray)
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    John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God (Foreword by Gerald L. Bray)

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    Piper concisely but forcefully explores the essence of Calvin's preaching and zeal as he seeks to ignite every Christian's passion so that the glory and supremacy of God takes center-stage in our lives as well.

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    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateDec 5, 2008
    ISBN9781433522154
    John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God (Foreword by Gerald L. Bray)
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    John Piper

     John Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don’t Waste Your Life; and Providence. 

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      This book was written to celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth. In just 59 pages, you get a very succinct view of the essentials of Calvin's life and work: to show the glory of God. We learn that Calvin was not an original thinker, but that he was possessed by the Holy Spirit to spread God's Word to a hungry and dying world. The book starts with practical application to our own life, and ends with the essential details of Calvin's life. The book is exceptionally well written, and is tight and crisp. This is a great way to be introduced to a man that today affects your life in ways that you do not even realize, and to whet your appetite to read more about him, and to grow in the truth of his own writings about God.If you don’t hold a high view of Calvin, you probably don’t know him. If you don’t know Calvin, you need to meet him yourself. This work is a great introduction to a man who walked closely with the Holy Spirit, and who’s teaching holds extremely closely to the very word of God, and a man that was one of the key laborers that reformed an accurate view of both God and man in this world.

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    John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God (Foreword by Gerald L. Bray) - John Piper

    JOHN CALVIN

    AND HIS PASSION FOR THE

    MAJESTY OF GOD

    JOHN CALVIN

    and His Passion for the Majesty of God

    JOHN PIPER

    Foreword by Gerald L. Bray

    CROSSWAY BOOKS

    WHEATON, ILLINOIS

    John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God

    Copyright © 2009 by Desiring God Foundation

    Published by Crossway Books

    a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers

    1300 Crescent Street

    Wheaton, Illinois 60187

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

    Originally published in The Legacy of Sovereign Joy: God ’s Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin, 2006.

    Cover design: Josh Dennis

    Cover illustration: Bridgeman Art Library

    First printing 2009

    Printed in the United States of America

    Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

    PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-0568-8

    Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-0564-5

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Piper, John, 1946–

       John Calvin and his passion for the majesty of God / John Piper;

    foreword by Gerald L. Bray.

          p. cm.

       Includes bibliographical references and index.

       ISBN 978-1-4335-0182-1 (tpb)

       1. Calvin, Jean, 1509–1564. 2. Reformation—Switzerland—

    Geneva— Biography. I. Title.

    BX9418.P53     2008

    284'.2092—dc22

    2008010514

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    Contents

    Foreword

    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

    FOREWORD

    The year 2009 marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, by common consent one of the greatest, but also one of the most controversial, Christian leaders who ever lived. Yet for a man who stood at the center of the revolutionary upheavals of sixteenth-century Europe and who was personally involved in trying to reform churches from Scotland to Hungary, Calvin is surprisingly little known.

    People write plays and make films about Martin Luther but not about John Calvin, who seems much harder to pin down. We know very little about his early life and almost nothing about his conversion, which must have happened sometime in 1533 or 1534. His wanderings over the next several years, including his extended stay with Martin Bucer in Strasbourg, are better documented, but despite the adventures his travels entailed, they have never seemed to be the stuff of high drama.

    The Geneva years are the best known, but even they are widely misunderstood. Few people realize that Calvin was a foreigner in Geneva who was not granted citizenship there until 1559, and so he could never take part in the city’s government. Even fewer realize that Calvin’s Geneva was not a theocracy but a worldly city-state with which he was frequently at odds. Never a well man, there were times when he almost had to be dragged out of his sickbed to preach from the pulpit of the main city church, and it was something of a miracle that he lived as long as he did.

    Yet today more people read Calvin’s writings than those of any other Christian outside the New Testament writers. His commentaries remain standard works in and are generally regarded as the first great monument of modern

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