John Piper

John Stephen Piper (* 11. január 1946, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA) je americký reformovaný baptistický teológ a učiteľ. Je autorom mnohých kníh s kresťanskou tematikou  a zakladateľom organizácie  Desiring God pomenovanej podľa jeho knihy. Jej cieľom je "šíriť nadšenie pre Božiu zvrchovanosť vo všetkých veciach pre radosť všetkých ľudí skrze Ježiša Krista“.

John Piper je tiež známy svojimi názormi na kresťanský hedonizmus, a pre svoju výnimočnú obhajobu kalvinizmu je niektorými nazývaný "superstar kalvinizmu".

V rokoch 1974 – 1980 vyučoval biblistiku na Bethel College v St. Paule v Minnesote; od roku 1980 pôsobil niečo vyše 30 rokov ako pastor cirkevného zboru Bethlehem Baptist Church v Minneapolise.

Vo svojej teológii nadväzuje na Jonathana Edwardsa.

Citát 
Piperove stručné chápanie kalvinizmu:

„Reformovaná teológia, ako ju ja rozumiem, je chápanie Boha a Jeho spôsobu konania vo svete, ktoré rastie ako strom s mnohými vetvami z hlbokého presvedčenia, že Božia sláva je cieľom všetkých vecí, a Jeho sloboda a Jeho zvrchovanosť sú kľúčové pre Jeho božskosť, a že preto že je slobodný, zvrchovaný a slávny, nepotrebuje nikoho aby mu slúžil pre naplnenie Jeho potrieb, a preto je slávne slobodný aby bol ku nám milostivý.“

„Chceme, aby aj iní mali tú sladkú skúsenosť odpočinku v obrovskom uistení z týchto právd. Chceme, aby aj iní cítili tú náramnú motiváciu pre spravodlivosť a misiu vytekajúcu z týchto právd. Chceme, aby ďalší mali tú skúsenosť poznania a dôvery v suverénnu Božiu milosť, a to takým spôsobom, aby Boh a iba Boh dostal slávu.“

Knihy 
Love Your Enemies: Jesus' Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and the Early Christian Paraenesis (Cambridge University Press, 1980; Baker, 1991).
The Justification of God: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 9:1–23 (Baker, 1983; 2nd ed. 1993).
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (Multnomah, 1986; 2nd ed, 1996; 3rd ed, 2003; 4th ed [25th Anniversary], 2011).
The Supremacy of God in Preaching (Baker, 1990, 2nd ed, 2003).
The Pleasures of God (Multnomah, 1991; Expanded edition, 2000).
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Co-editor) (Crossway, 1991).
Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions (Baker, 1993, 2nd Edition 2003).
Future Grace: The Purifying Power of Living By Faith In Future Grace (Multnomah, 1995).
A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer (Crossway, 1997).
A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life (Multnomah, 1997).
God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards (Crossway, 1998).
The Innkeeper (Crossway, 1998).
A Godward Life, Book Two: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life (Multnomah, 1999).
The Legacy of Sovereign Joy: God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin (Crossway, 2000).
The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd (Crossway, 2001).
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (Crossway, 2001, 2nd edition, 2004).
The Dangerous Duty of Delight: Daring to Make God the Object of Your Desire (Multnomah, 2001).
What's the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible (Crossway, 2001, reprint 2008).
The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God (Crossway, 2002).
Brothers, We Are not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry (Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2002).
The Roots of Endurance: Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce (Crossway, 2002).
Counted Righteous in Christ: Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness? (Crossway, 2002). Several chapters are available online for free.
Beyond the Bounds (co-editor) (Crossway, 2003).
Don't Waste Your Life (Crossway, 2003).
Pierced By the Word: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Soul (Multnomah, 2003).
The Prodigal's Sister (Crossway, 2003).
The Passion of Jesus Christ (Crossway, 2004). Also released under title 50 Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy (Crossway, 2004).
Life As a Vapor (Multnomah, 2004).
A God Entranced Vision of All Things (Co-editor; Crossway, 2004).
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (w/ Justin Taylor, Crossway, 2005).
Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life (Multnomah, 2005).
God is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself (Crossway, 2005).
Contending for Our All: Defending Truth and Treasuring Christ in the Lives of Athanasius, John Owen, and J. Gresham Machen (Crossway, 2006).
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die (Crossway, 2006).
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Crossway, 2006).
What Jesus Demands from the World (Crossway, 2006).
When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God—and Joy (Crossway, 2007)
Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce (Crossway, 2007).
The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World (co-editor w/ Justin Taylor, Crossway, 2007)
Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure (Multnomah, 2007)
The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright (Crossway 2007).
Spectacular Sins: And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ (Crossway, 2008).
John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God (Crossway, 2008).
The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd (Crossway, 2008).
Finally Alive (Christian Focus, 2009).
This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence (Crossway, 2009)
Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton (Crossway, 2009).
A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God (Crossway 2010).
Jesus: The Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to be Saved? (Baker, 2010).
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God (Crossway, 2010).
The Gadarene (Desiring God, 2010)
The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor (Crossway, 2011).
Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian (Crossway, 2011).
The complete text of most of Piper's books can be accessed free of charge at Desiring God.

V slovenčine a češtine 
 Božia zvrchovanosť v kázaní, Návrat domov, 2000, v origináli: Supremacy of God in Preaching, ISBN 80-967954-9-X.
 Túžba po živote, Úvahy o radosti a šťastí, Porta libri, 2004, v origináli: Desiring God, ISBN 80-89067-17-4.
 Hlad po Bohu, Návrat domů, 2005, ISBN 80-7255-050-0.
 Nepromarni svůj život, Didasko, 2009, v origináli: Don´t Waste your life, ISBN 978-80-904378-0-7 .
 Pro vaši radost, Didasko, 2011, v origináli: For You Joy, ISBN 978-80-904378-6-9.

Referencie

Iné projekty

Externé odkazy 
 Citáty
 Piperov článok „Omezené smíření“
 Piperov článok „Neodolatelná milost“
 Organizácia Desiring God

Zdroj 

Teológovia
Kresťanskí spisovatelia
Náboženskí spisovatelia USA
Duchovní
Osobnosti z Chattanoogy