Hedonize Your Marriage
I have tried to offer commentary on John Piper’s book, Desiring God , that will make it more palatable to the lay reader. In making that statement I know that I am also saying that I do not believe the book is palatable to the lay reader. I will affirm; I believe this to be true. Case in point is chapter 8 on Marriage, the Matrix for Christian Hedonism. On this chapter I do not believe commentary is as needed as editing. If I were going to print this chapter I would begin on page 210. The pages preceding this are what I feel makes the book less palatable for the lay reader. In every chapter Piper spends some awkward moments waxing philosophically on Hedonism. What makes this even more awkward for me is that I am still uncomfortable with trying to merge the ugly word “Hedonism” with the sacred word “Christian.” I know Piper argued for this merger way back in the beginning of the book. I am just not there yet, and I am not sure I will ever be. At the same time, I agre