Piper Endorses Chesterton's Orthodoxy (Roman Catholicism)

Piper celebrates Roman Catholic philosopher G.K. Chesterton.

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May 29 is G. K. Chesterton’s 134th birthday. He was a British journalist and brilliant writer. Nobody exploits the power of paradox like Chesterton.

I celebrate his birthday by recommending his book Orthodoxy.

The title gives no clue as to what you will find inside. It had a huge influence on me forty years ago in ways that would have exasperated Chesterton. He did all he could to keep me from becoming a Calvinist, and instead made me a romantic one—a happy one.

If I thought his broadsides against predestination really hit home and undid true biblical doctrine, I would keep my mouth shut or change my worldview. But his celebration of poetry and paradox undermines his own abomination of the greatest truth-and-mystery-lovers around today, the happyCalvinists.

Nothing in this Calvinism-abominating book came close to keeping me from embracing the glorious sovereignty of God. On the contrary, the poetic brightness of the book, along with the works of C. S. Lewis, awakened in me an exuberance about the strangeness of all things—which in the end made me able to embrace the imponderable paradoxes of God’s decisive control of all things and the total justice of his holding us accountable.

One of the reasons that Calvinism is stirring today is that it takes both truth and mystery seriously. It’s a singing, poetry-writing, run-through-the-fields Calvinism.

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Truth in everything, even a false church (the RCC), false teacher (Chesterton, and Lewis). Piper wants people to find truth in the lies. No wonder today he tweeted a quote from Chesterton, and so far was retweeted 100 times.

The RCC has a false gospel and a false Jesus. How dare a pastor, much less a Christian, sing the applause of anti-Christs and then say we must embrace some sort of mystery????