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Nothing mattered more to John Calvin than the centrality, supremacy, and majesty of the glory of God. His aim, he wrote, was to “set before [man], as the prime motive of his existence, zeal to illustrate the glory of God”—a fitting banner over all of the great Reformer’s life and work. In John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God John Piper illuminates this theme in Calvin’s life and...

ever had a profounder sense of God than he.”4 There’s the key to Calvin’s life and theology. Geerhardus Vos, the Princeton New Testament scholar, asked this question in 1891: Why has Reformed theology been able to grasp the fullness of Scripture unlike any other branch of Christendom? He answered, “Because Reformed theology took hold of the Scriptures in their deepest root idea.… This root idea which served as the key to unlock the rich treasuries of the Scriptures was the preeminence of God’s glory
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