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J.I. Packer
James Innell Packer (July 22, 1926 – July 17, 2020) was an English-born Canadian theologian, Anglican priest, and one of the most influential evangelical authors of the 20th century.
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This site quotes J.I. Packer 1 times across 1 book, and lists 8 works.
- Lived 1926 to 2020.
- Quoted here most in Galatians: 1 of 1.
J.I. Packer
- Lived
- 1926 to 2020
- Tradition
- Reformed Anglican
- Portrait
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1 of 1 quotations
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Quoted at 50 words or fewer, because J.I. Packer's works are in copyright.
The curse is the divine condemnation of sin which leads to death. To this curse we lay exposed; but Christ on his cross identified himself with the doom impending on sinners that, through his act, the curse passes away and we go free.
What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Penal Substitution, 1974
Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” BSB
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James Innell Packer (July 22, 1926 – July 17, 2020) was an English-born Canadian theologian, Anglican priest, and one of the most influential evangelical authors of the 20th century. Educated at Oxford (Corpus Christi, then Wycliffe Hall), he was ordained Anglican in 1952 and earned his D.Phil. on Richard Baxter and the Puritan tradition in 1954. He taught at Tyndale Hall Bristol, Trinity College Bristol, and from 1979 until his death at Regent College, Vancouver. He served as general editor of the English Standard Version (ESV, 2001) and as a signatory and chief drafter of the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. Knowing God (1973) sold over 1.5 million copies and was named to Christianity Today's "Top 50 Books that Have Shaped Evangelicals." He published over 300 articles and approximately 30 books.
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Knowing God
1973
The most widely read evangelical theology book of the 20th century. A series of Evangelical Magazine articles assembled into a book; the "attributes-as-foundation-for-godliness" structure is structurally downstream of Tozer's Knowledge of the Holy and upstream of nearly every modern evangelical primer on the doctrine of God.
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Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
1961
The classical resolution of the Calvinist evangelism question — the "antinomy" of divine sovereignty and human responsibility. A foundational text for Reformed evangelicalism's evangelistic confidence.
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What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Penal Substitution
1974, Tyndale Bulletin essay
The standard 20th-century articulation and defense of penal substitution. Required reading on the topic.
1 quotation on this site
The Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life
1990
Packer's program statement on Puritan formation. The fullest articulation of his pastoral-theological vision.
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Keep in Step with the Spirit
1984
Packer's most sustained engagement with the cessation/continuation debate; a uniquely irenic Reformed treatment of the charismatic movement.
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Concise Theology
1993
Lay-accessible Reformed systematic theology in 100 short chapters. Used as the catechetical primer for the ESV Study Bible and many evangelical curricula.
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Saved by His Precious Blood: An Introduction to John Owen's The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
1958, introductory essay
Packer's first major theological essay; the introduction that reintroduced Owen's classic to a generation of evangelicals. Particular-redemption defense.
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Fundamentalism and the Word of God
1958
Packer's defense of biblical authority against Anglican modernism; his early career-defining work.
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