John piper short bio
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Chancellor & Professor penalty Practical Discipline and Scriptural Exegesis
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Piper on Providential Historiography and Audiences
Historian John Coffey, in an insightful, critical analysis of Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s use of history, noted:
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Few pastors have displayed such a sustained interest in both reading and promoting church history, though a similar emphasis can be seen in the writings of the contemporary American Reformed pastor John Piper, who shares many of the same passions as Lloyd-Jones.
One accomplished historian at an evangelical seminary does an opening lecture for his PhD seminar on historiography entitled, “Is John Piper a historian?”
Looking at Piper’s approach to and use of history can be instructive. I will attempt to summarize and evaluate Piper’s use of history as a means of edification for the Christian life.
Piper’s Attraction to Biography
Piper’s relationship to biography can be analyzed in accordance with his use of biographies for his own spiritual nourishment and his production of biographies for the edification of others.
“Biographies,” Piper writes, “have served as much as any other human force in my life to resist the inertia of mediocrity.” Upon becoming pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in 1980, Piper sought out biographies in order to charge his “pastoral batteries” and to give h
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John Piper Stats | |
| · | Born: Jan. 11, 1946 |
| · | Church Senior Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church |
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| · | Denomination: Baptist GeneralConference |
| · | Theology: 7-point calvinist, credo baptist, Historic Premillenialist, Leans to Covenant Theology, not dispensationalism |
"The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God's glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it. It is a massive abdication of scholarship that so many Christians do academic work with so little reference to God."
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