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God’s Glory Alone—The Majestic Heart of Christian Faith and Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Historians and theologians have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were five declarations, often referred to as the ‘solas’: sola scriptura, solus Christus, sola gratia, sola fide, and soli Deo gloria. These five statements summarize much of what the Reformation was about, and they distinguish Protestantism from other expressions of the Christian...

what shapes nearly everything he preaches and writes.19 In this Edwardsian vision, God’s grace enables us to grow into an ever-increasing delight in God, and “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”20 Thus, God zealously desires our joy just as much as he desires his own glory.21 In this sense, Piper embraces C. S. Lewis’s aphorism, “It is a Christian duty, as you know, for everyone to be as happy as he can.”22 Another route by which contemporary writers approach the theme
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