Is it possible to be an Arminian Christian hedonist?
Christian hedonism is a banner that I’m not real eager to have preserved as a movement with a name on it, because names are ambiguous and you can’t tell what people believe when they just give you a name. So if somebody said to me, “Hi, I’m a Christian hedonist,” I wouldn’t know what to think. I would ask them some questions to draw them out. What I mean by the term is that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. It is learning the genius of God’s creation to make himself supreme while satisfying us in that supremacy, so that the best of both worlds—my happiness and his glory—do not compete. Because my happiness is in his glory, and being in his glory makes his glory look really glorious. Now, the only reason I would say an Arminian would have a hard time with that is because we’re not seeing the glory of God exactly the same. Arminians love the glory of God, and they want to glorify God; but we see wherein that glory consists differently. So structurally the ans
