J. I. Packer
J. I. Packer
JamesInnell Packeris a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low church Anglican and Reformed traditions. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North America. He has been the theologian emeritus of the Anglican Church in North America, since its inception in 2009...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth22 July 1926
loneliness self life-and-death
What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.
goal glorify
God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
knowing-god stills knows
You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
peace-with-god firsts doe
The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
father son scripture
God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture....
lord endeavor calvinism
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.
essence wrath giving
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
way
God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.
purpose conscious communion
His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
christian mean men
The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.
two sick sin
There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
spirit holy holy-spirit
The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
emotional thinking feelings
Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.
spiritual literal
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.