It's a rather unique week for us here on the podcast.

We're featuring three episodes on Christian hedonism, and today, in a longer than normal

episode, we're going to look at the relationship between Christian hedonism and reform theology.

And on Wednesday, we're going to look at Pastor John's fears and expectations for Christian

hedonism after he's gone.

And we end the week looking at the name Desiring God, some alternatives in why Pastor John

settled on the one he did.

There'll be an important week for questions like that.

But first up, Pastor John, in your book Desiring God, you've called this thing Christian

hedonism, a philosophy of life.

That's pretty sweeping.

In other places, you call it reformed Christian hedonism.

So is Christian hedonism an alternative way of conceiving reform theology?

Is it a different theology in the sense that it rejects some tenants of reform theology

and replaces them with better tenants?

Can you help us get some clarity on this?

In your mind, what is Christian hedonism's relationship to historic reformed theology?

Well, I'll try.

It's really big and yet so helpful for me to think about this.

Now before I do that, there are no doubt some listeners who don't know the central ideas

of either of those terms like reformed theology or Christian hedonism.

So let me give just a word about each.

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