What Are the Emotions of God | John Piper

The Henry Center Archive

Lecture Title - The Glory of God and the Gladness of Man: Essential Affections in Edwards and the Life of the Church "Edwards probed the affections and religious experience with an intensity unique to the eighteenth century and perhaps the centuries since," McClymond and McDermott tell us in their book on Edwards' theology (2011). The upshot of that probing, Dr. John Piper will demonstrate in this lecture, was the elevation of the affections into the very nature of our trinitarian God and his sovereign purposes for the universe. When his biblical vision is grasped, everything in the life of the soul and the church changes. Response: Todd Wilson, Senior Pastor of Calvary Memorial Church John Piper (DTh University of Munich) is Founder and Teacher of DesiringGod.org, Chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary, and was Senior Pastor for 33 years at Bethlehem Baptist Church. He is author of more than 50 books, most recently Providence (Crossway, 2021). The Henry Center for Theological Understanding provides theological resources that help bridge the gap between the academy and the church. It houses a cluster of initiatives, each of which is aimed at applying practical Christian wisdom to important kingdom issues—for the good of the church, for the soul of the theological academy, for the sake of the world, and ultimately for the glory of God. The HCTU seeks to ground each of these initiatives in Scripture, and it pursues these goals collaboratively, in order to train a new generation of wise interpreters of the Word—lay persons and scholars alike—for the sake of tomorrow’s church, academy, and world.

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