Voices and influences
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.
Works on this site: 1958 to 1993.
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In their own words
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.
J.I. Packer· What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Penal Substitution, 1974Reformed Anglican
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.”
About this voice
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.
8 works
What this site reads them for
| The work | Year | Quoted here |
|---|---|---|
| Knowing GodThe 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. | 1973 | Not quoted here yet |
| Evangelism and the Sovereignty of GodThe classical resolution of the Calvinist evangelism question — the "antinomy" of divine sovereignty and human responsibility. A foundational text for Reformed evangelicalism's evangelistic confidence. | 1961 | Not quoted here yet |
| What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Penal SubstitutionThe standard 20th-century articulation and defense of penal substitution. Required reading on the topic. | 1974 | 1 quotation |
| The Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian LifePacker's program statement on Puritan formation. The fullest articulation of his pastoral-theological vision. | 1990 | Not quoted here yet |
| Keep in Step with the SpiritPacker's most sustained engagement with the cessation/continuation debate; a uniquely irenic Reformed treatment of the charismatic movement. | 1984 | Not quoted here yet |
| Concise TheologyLay-accessible Reformed systematic theology in 100 short chapters. Used as the catechetical primer for the ESV Study Bible and many evangelical curricula. | 1993 | Not quoted here yet |
| Saved by His Precious Blood: An Introduction to John Owen's The Death of Death in the Death of ChristPacker's first major theological essay; the introduction that reintroduced Owen's classic to a generation of evangelicals. Particular-redemption defense. | 1958 | Not quoted here yet |
| Fundamentalism and the Word of GodPacker's defense of biblical authority against Anglican modernism; his early career-defining work. | 1958 | Not quoted here yet |
Where to find them
- Knowing God
- Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
- What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Penal Substitution
- The Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life
- Keep in Step with the Spirit
- Concise Theology
- Saved by His Precious Blood: An Introduction to John Owen's The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
- Fundamentalism and the Word of God
1 quotation across 1 book