His sharp intellect and poetic eloquence make him a captivating author and speaker. Though of a humble demeanour, Piper is an accomplished scholar.
His dissertation was entitled, “Love Your Enemies”, and was published by Cambridge University Press and Baker Book House. Piper pursued a doctoral degree at the University of Munich in Germany in New Testament Studies. Some of his theological distinctive beliefs are a Calvinistic soteriology and understanding of God’s total sovereignty, historic premillennialism, and a permanence view of marriage. Fuller that Piper discovered the writings of Jonathan Edwards who would become one of the most influential authors in his life. After college, he completed a Bachelor of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary where he studied directly under Dr.
Piper met his wife, Noel, at Wheaton and they married in 1968. Today he regularly writes poetry to celebrate family occasions and also express biblical themes. Piper studied Romantic Literature at Wheaton College where it grew his affection for poetry. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery in 2006, from which he successfully recovered. John Piper is father to four sons and a daughter, and is grandfather to twelve grandkids. He is the son of an itinerant evangelist, Bill Piper and his mother, Ruth, passed away tragically in a bus accident while visiting Israel when he was 28. John Stephen Piper was born in Tennessee on Januand grew up in Greenville, South Carolina.
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