Author: John Piper
Narrator: John Piper
Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Christian Audio
Published: 04/01/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Religious Nonfiction
John Piper is a bestselling author, a major evangelical leader, and the founder of Desiring God Ministries. For over thirty years, he was pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written more than fifty books, including Desiring God.
Piper chooses very well how to get across the essence of John Calvin's passion for God and His Word in a few pages.......more
I really liked everything I had read by John Piper in the past, and when I was looking for a bio on John Calvin, I picked this one first. As far as a biography goes, this book does not go into a ton of detail on Calvin's life, but it does focus heavily on Calvin's theology--which is even more import......more
Shallow and superficial. It's not awful; there's just not much here to recommend. It's a cursory glance at a fascinating life, but what's here is so superficial that it just raises more questions about Calvin than it answers. Consider this intriguing passage, as an example: "Easter day of 1538 after......more
This book perfectly paints the picture of every Christian that believes Calvin theology is rooted in T.U.L.I.P. Well, they’re wrong. Calvin’s theology is so much deeper than that and much less rigid than that. The sole desire of Calvin was to make the Word of God glorified and primary in the Church......more
This was a really good book to listen to. Such a barbaric time to live. In the 1500s. John was in opposition to the Catholic Churches teachings. Many people were burned at the stake for this opposition. He might not have gotten it all right but he honored God and preached many sermons to help others......more