But I had never heard that God lives for the glory of God. I knew about my duty to live for the glory of God. Fuller pointed me to Jonathan Edwards, Blaise Pascal, C.S. “I had never heard before about the relationship of divine glory and human happiness. In a column posted to on Friday, Piper described how 50 years earlier he came to realize that he could reconcile the idea of pursuing happiness and pursuing the Glory of God.Īccording to Piper, this came with his first semester in the fall of 1968 at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California, and a course taught by the son of the seminary’s founder. Bethlehem College & Seminary Chancellor and Desiring God founder John Piper recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of when he discovered a concept he calls “Christian hedonism.”
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