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Article: The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
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- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God. By John Piper. Revised and expanded. Sisters: Multnomah, 2000, 340 pp. + 30 pp. study guide, $14.00, paper.
No greater delight exists than the unsurpassable and all-satisfying delight of contemplating, savoring, and embracing the fullness of God's infinitely wondrous and allsufficient character and person. While many biblical Christians may accept this thesis, what fewer would accept immediately is that this greatest of all delights is in fact true for God as well as for us. That is, not only is it true that our greatest delight is in God; even more importantly, God's greatest delight is in God. According to John Piper, this ...