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Dec 17, 2023 · ‘Knowing God’ is Packer’s attempt to tell us what Scripture says about God. Fifty years later, it continues exerting a profoundly Christ-exalting influence.
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Packer liked to describe himself as, above all else, a catechist: someone who instructs others in the Christian faith and life. A catechist need not be an academic. By definition, however, a catechist must be an ecclesial theologian, someone whose teaching builds up the church, one disciple at a time. Packer’s catechetical fingerprints are all over...
Knowing God is best seen as the first part of a Trinitarian trilogy. Readers are advised to follow up with Growing in Christ and Keep in Step with the Spirit. All three books teach theology, but the kind of theology that is not meant simply to idle in one’s head. Packer himself kept in step with his English Puritan forebears, like William Ames, who...
Packer once definedtheology as “the use of the mind and the tongue to celebrate God and get clear in one’s thinking and talking about him.” The point is that doctrine directs disciples toward doxology in everything they do. (“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God,” 1 Cor. 10:31.) The glory of God was the mot...
What does Packer mean by “the Godhead of God,” “the powers of God,” and “the perfections of God”? What is the answer to the fourth question in the Westminster Shorter Catechism?
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Mar 13, 2021 · 1. What is Packer deeply concerned to help people understand? He is deeply concerned to help people understand God’s greatness (not unlike R.C. Sproul’s “The Holiness of God”). 2. What are two milestones that helped Packer’s personal growth? (1) The first thing to ask of any Scripture is what it teaches about my God.
Aug 18, 2016 · Among other characteristics, Packer is known for condensing deep theological truths into pithy and inspirational statements. In the introduction to 18 Words, Packer comments on his writing: I love pregnant brevity, and some of my material is, I know, packed tight (Packer by name, packer by nature).
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Apr 13, 2014 · Sam Storms reviews J. I. Packer’s new book on the Christian life, ‘Weakness Is the Way: Life with Christ Our Strength’ (Crossway, 2013). Weakness is not a cause for self-pity but for Christ-dependence.
