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John Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946) is an American theologian and pastor in the Reformed Baptist tradition. He is also chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota . [ 4 ]
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John Piper may refer to: John Piper (artist) (1903–1992), English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows; John Piper (broadcaster), BBC radio host; John Piper (military officer) (1773–1851), lieutenant-governor of Norfolk Island; John Piper (theologian) (born 1946), Calvinist Baptist pastor and author
Abraham Piper is a serial entrepreneur and artist living in Minneapolis. [1] He is the son of Reformed Baptist preacher and writer John Piper. Early life
A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World is a work by Christian theologian, reformer, author, and pastor Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) that was started in the mid-1750s but not finally published until 1765, several years following Edwards' death.
The Nature of True Virtue, and its companion work, A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World, are still popular works today.Modern theologian John Piper, who extensively studied the works of Edwards while at seminary, credits the work with awakening in him "a deep longing to be a good man."
J. Todd Billings, professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary, argues that the New Calvinists "tend to obscure the fact that the Reformed tradition has a deeply catholic heritage, a Christ-centered sacramental practice and a wide-lens, kingdom vision for the Christian's vocation in the world."
Fuller had a significant influence on John Piper, who studied under him at Fuller Seminary. In his foreword to Fuller's 1992 book The Unity of the Bible: Unfolding God's Plan for Humanity, Piper wrote, "No book besides the Bible has had a greater influence on my life than Daniel Fuller's The Unity of the Bible." [12]