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- To know Packer is to know a master teacher from evangelicalism’s “greatest generation,” that group of mid-20th century architects of a middle way beyond fundamentalist and liberal Christianity—people like John Stott, Billy Graham, Carl F. H. Henry, Bernard Ramm, and Harold Ockenga—who affirmed a biblically grounded, orthodox faith even as they brought it to bear on the modern social and intellectual crises of their day.
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Oct 22, 2021 · Packer’s Knowing God is not about hermeneutics, but actually knowing God. Packer divides it into three sections: why we should know God, what God is like, and the benefits of knowing God.
Mar 19, 2022 · What exactly does knowing God mean and entail? It begins, notes Packer, with listening to God’s written and infallible word as the Holy Spirit sheds light on the nature of our Creator and Redeemer. But listening is only the start.
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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With five foundational principles: God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word. God is Lord and King over His world. God is Savior – active to rescue believers from the guilt and power of sin. God is triune – there are within God three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Mar 13, 2021 · 1. What does it mean that Packer calls Knowing God “a nurture book for the Christian world”? Packer is aiming for edification not just answers (cf. Calvin’s Institutes, “a sum of piety”) 2. For whom does Packer say he is writing Knowing God? The book is “angled for honest, no nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian ...
J. I. Packer's (1926–2020) dedicated himself to ministry—resulting in decades of teaching, dozens of books, and a lifetime of faithfulness.
Jul 28, 2020 · There he argues we shouldn’t merely focus on the abridged acronym of the five points (TULIP), but bring in the full Christ-centered soteriology of the historic gospel of what it means to know God and be known by him, which is more broadly now called “Calvinism,” which Packer affirms is “the biblical gospel.”
